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The real “King and I”
“In 1862, 31-year-old Anna Leonowens accepted an offer to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, King of Siam.
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Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life
This is the last time I’m going to talk about my personal life in an American publication ever again.
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Will we ever… cryopreserve our organs?
Imagine if doctors could dip into freezers and take their pick of kidneys, livers or hearts for life-saving operations. Here’s why it’s so hard to achieve.
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Meet Terrible Tilly, the Killer Lighthouse
Things did not begin well for the Oregon lighthouse that came to be known as Terrible Tilly.
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13 Reasons Being A Low-Key Nerd Is Actually Awesome
Perhaps the most underrated (but what I believe to be the best) role you can have in a group, or in life for that matter, is the low-key nerd.
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How much my novel cost me
Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to become solvent
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Heroin's lethal comeback
The urban drug scourge of the 1960s and '70s is enjoying a nationwide resurgence — and destroying lives
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Gold Country couple discovers millions in buried coins
The bonanza emerged last year as the man and woman were walking their dog on their property in the Gold Country and noticed the top of a decaying canister poking out of the ground.
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The Lesson of the Monkeys
I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it. It's both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phen...
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Three-person baby details announced
How the creation of babies using sperm and eggs from three people will be regulated in the UK has been announced.
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Nowhere to hide from extreme weather
Wherever you go, you will have weather to complain about
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Great places for fans of steam locomotives
The mournful wail of the whistle, the whoosh of boiler steam and the welcome warning of "All aboard!"
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The Algoma Lighthouse
The Algoma Lighthouse, Sunday March 2, 2014 — Algoma, WI on a cold winter morning.
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10 Most Weird Facts About Cheating
Hair color? Deep Voices? Facebook? See what else is leading to adultery, according to science.
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The last place on Earth… without life
Weird and wonderful creatures thrive in the planet’s most hostile places, but there are a few spots too harsh for even the hardiest.
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A Notoriously Dangerous Fireworks Festival
One of the most dangerous fireworks festivals in the world is held once a year at the end of the Chinese New Year in Tainan City, Taiwan. Here, thousands of bottle rockets are ignited from a "beehive" to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck to those who are in the path of the rockets.
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Daylight Saving Time: Spring Forward Without Falling Behind on Your Sleep
A few tips to help reset your internal clock.Yes it's this weekend!
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How to move a town two miles east
This spring work will begin to move Sweden's northernmost town two miles to the east. Over the next 20 years, 20,000 people will move into new homes, built around a new town centre, as a mine gradually swallows the old community.
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The children of Japan's Fukushima battle an invisible enemy
Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it's like to play outside - fear of radiation has kept them
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The wild one: Top Gear drives SLS AMG GT Final Edition
After a four-year run, Mercedes’ gullwinged monster heads towards the exit, but not without first spawning a heavy-breathing special edition.
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