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Icebergs Make Some of the Ocean's Loudest and Most Eerie Sounds
Scientists are just learning to decode the sounds of icebergs. By Sarah Laskow
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The Mysterious Death of a Muslim Marine Recruit
Raheel Siddiqui was a young Muslim who dreamed of becoming a Marine. At twenty, he started basic training at Parris Island, where barking drill sergeants transform callow recruits into elite killing machines. Less than two weeks after he arrived, Siddiqui suffered a mysterious and fatal fall. The Marine Corps says he committed suicide, but some think more sinister forces led to his death. Alex French investigates.
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Secret Crime-Fighter Revealed to Be 1930s Physicist
Nine recently unearthed notebooks record the true scope of work done by the mysterious forensics pioneer called “Detective X.” By Veronique Greenwood.
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Did a historian from Ecuador find the lost ‘treasure’ of the Incas — in a book?
In 2010, Tamara Estupiñan’s academic research led her to discover forgotten Inca ruins in the heart of Ecuador. For the historian, the Malqui-Machay site represents the final resting place of the last king of the Incas, Atahualpa, but it’s also the subject of a raging academic debate. By Jim Wyss.
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The Curious Case of Chavis Carter
The case of a young man supposedly taking a gun and shooting himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car truly “defies logic.” By Charles M. Blow. (Aug. 3, 2012)
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WWII-era plane mystery: Who are Eva and Edith?
Their identities may have been lost in time, but now the search is on for two women who scrawled their names inside the wing of a WWII-era fighter plane.
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Dangerous Fruit: Mystery of Deadly Outbreaks in India Is Solved
Researchers had suspected that heat stroke, infections or pesticides were behind a disease that killed about 40 percent of children affected, but it seems lychees were to blame. By Ellen Barry.
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Amelia Earhart died as a castaway, not in a crash
There's an entire chapter in Amelia Earhart's life that history ignores, says new research: The legendary American pilot died as a castaway, not in a plane crash.
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Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street
A discarded photo album reveals a rich history of black lives, from the segregated South to Harlem dance halls to a pretty block in Crown Heights. By Annie Correal.
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The True Story of the Fugitive Drug Smuggler Who Became an Environmental Hero
When Raymond Stansel was busted in 1974, he was one of Florida’s biggest pot smugglers. Facing trial and years in prison, he jumped bail, changed his name, and holed up in a remote Australian outpost. Even more remarkable than that? His second life as an environmental hero. By Rich Schapiro.
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The Mysterious Vanishing of Ambrose Bierce
Some mysterious vanishings manage to strike a perfect balance between the weird, the unexplained, and the victim’s life in general. In some cases these disappearances seem almost fitting, as if they were fated to be and that they could not have happened any other way. One such case surely must be the disappearance of a talented author who wrote extensively of the world of the supernatural and strange vanishings, only to follow suit… By Brent Swancer.
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Death on the Hippie Trail
A young man’s mysterious disappearance in the Himalayas. By Ariel Sophia Bardi.
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On the trail of the Man in the Iron Mask
Trying to discover the identity of the man in the iron mask. By David Coward.
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The World's Thickest Book
It's official at 4,032 pages, all resting on a spine over a foot thick, the world's thickest book is The Complete Miss Marple.
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The Paramedic Murderer of Narrowsburg, N.Y.
A small town upstate, a Queens ambulance veteran, and a murder. By Nina Burleigh. (Apr. 10, 2014)
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A treasure hunter found 3 tons of sunken gold — and can’t leave jail until he says where it is
Tommy Thompson has already spent a year in jail for refusing to say what he did with one of the richest treasure finds in U.S. history. By Avi Selk.
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The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart
She and her navigator disappeared nearly 80 years ago. By Erik Shilling.
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The Contestant
The disappearance of Ruth Thalía Sayas Sánchez. By Daniel Alarcón.
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Two World War II Shipwrecks Mysteriously Vanished From the Bottom of the Ocean
A pair of warships lost during a historic 1942 naval battle have completely disappeared from their resting places at the bottom of the Java Sea. Large portions of a third ship are also missing.
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Anomalistic Beer Goggles: The Consequences of Doubt
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge” – Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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