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Are Stonehenge's Boulders Actually Big Bells?
Not every neolithic site can claim its own ’70s pop classic, but, hey: That’s Stonehenge. Countless theories and tools have attempted to make sense of the set of raised stones and earthworks in the south of England, categorizing it as an astronomical calendar, a healing site, a burial ground, or all of them at once. Now, a study from the Royal College of Art in London has suggested a new possibility: The monument might make music.
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The end of the hunt
On a stretch of road that was once the famous Route 66 in Monrovia, California, a small bedroom community 10 miles outside of Los Angeles, lies a mostly forgotten historic landmark: the Aztec Hotel. It’s known for its beautiful, Mayan-revival façade, an intricate layering of stucco and paint designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s contemporary, Robert Stacy-Judd.
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This Is The Room Where The Internet Was Born
For something as ubiquitous as the internet today, it certainly isn't easy to find where it all started. I don't mean historically, I mean logistically: 3420 Boelter Hall is a tiny room in a basement hallway of a large nondescript building on the sprawling UCLA campus.
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Crimea's Complicated History in Brief
Crimea is a strategically located region on the Black Sea with a complicated history. Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and an autonomous, predominantly Russian.
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Norway will cut through an island in tribute to massacre victims
How do you adequately craft a memorial for one of the worst days in a country's modern history? That's the question that was posed to architects and artists as part of a competition for a dual-site...
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P.S. Hoffman (A Tribute)
A post-script journey through Philip Seymour Hoffman's lifetime in cinema. 200 hours of work went into breaking down 47 of Hoffman's films. Compiling his legacy has been one of the most challenging experiences I've ever faced as an editor, and yet indescribably rewarding. I can assure you that after 22 years on screen and nearly fifty films, we now look at the work of an actor who never had a single dishonest moment on camera.
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Kick Andrew Jackson Off the $20 Bill!
My public high school wasn’t the best, but we did have an amazing history teacher. Mr. L, as we called him, brought our country’s story to life. So when he taught us about the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson’s campaigns to force at least 46,000 Cherokees, Choctaws, Muscogee-Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles off their ancestral lands, my classmates and I were stricken.
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China Remodels an Ancient Silk Road City, and an Ethnic Rift Widens
Visitors walking through the mud-brick rubble and yawning craters where close-packed houses and bazaars once stood could be forgiven for thinking that the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar had been irrevocably lost to the wrecking ball. A billboard looming over the ruins tries to counter that impression: “Inherit and preserve the historical culture to showcase a brand new Kashgar.”
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Norway Landscape Wound Commemorating Utoya Mass Shooting
Svein Bjørkås decided that Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg would build a symbolic landscape wound paying tribute to the Utoya mass shooting.
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A Brief History of Billy Corgan Losing His Goddamn Mind
Back in the 90s, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan capitalized on a nation of despondent weirdos with his outsider-friendly alterna-rock songs. But as time went on, Corgan swam so far out into his own ocean of lunacy that even most of his diehard fans wouldn’t follow him for fear of drowning with him. Plus, by then, most of them had jobs as computer programmers keeping them busy anyway.
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Grave Science
America’s effort to bring home its war dead is slow, inefficient and stymied by outdated methods.
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From top cop to ex-con, Kerik slams U.S. prison system
He has one of the most glittering resumes in the security business. The president of the United States said so himself when he tapped Bernard Kerik for one of the top posts in his administration. Kerik never got the job. Revelations of tax fraud and corruption landed him in court and then in prison. And those 36 months on the other side of the bars have transformed Kerik’s views of America’s criminal justice system.
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Norway will cut through an island in tribute to massacre victims
How do you adequately craft a memorial for one of the worst days in a country's modern history? That's the question that was posed to architects and artists as part of a competition for a dual-site memorial commemorating the attacks in Norway on July 22nd, 2011. On that day, 77 people were killed, eight by an Oslo car bomb and 69 in a massacre at a youth event on the island of Utøya.
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TIL purple cloth was rare in medieval Europe partially because blue and red dyes were made by separate guilds
Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.[1][2] The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as a deep, rich shade between crimson and violet.[3]
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'Rocket cat' weaponry found in 16th-century manual
PHILADELPHIA -- You're a 16th-century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you're leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or looking to settle the score with a rival nobleman. What's a guy looking for a tactical edge to do?
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The problem with too much information
The internet promised to feed our minds with information. What have we learned? That our minds need more than that
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Kudos to Hillary for Playing the Hitler Card
Calm down, everybody. Clinton's Hitler analogy was accurate—and it's hilarious to watch Republicans trying to use it to dent her foreign policy credentials.
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Does therapeutic yoga work? The best studies say no, but they don't get much press.
How Americans replaced therapeutic prayer with therapeutic yoga.
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5 Badass People Who Stood Up to Infamous Dictators
While most of us enjoy a good dictator joke (tee hee, Mao Zedong), we're way more likely to do so over a foamy latte than right in the dictator's face, surrounded by armed members of his stormtroopers. Not because we're cowards or anything, we swear - we just don't run into too many dictators in our day-to-day lives. Besides, we still need to talk to our downstairs neighbor about how loud he plays his music, and we're waiting for the right time.
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15 Chinese Artifacts That Will Change How You Look at China
Historical artifacts unearthed in China such as golf clubs, fashion accessories, toilet seats, toothbrushes, double-ended lesbian dildos and Google's Android?
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