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The tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets. • By Alan Bellows • 13 June 2023
When the U.S. Army came for their land in 1877, the Nez Perce tribe complied. But tensions boiled over, and Chief Joseph led as they ran for their lives.
In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
To whom it may concern, we now have a (mostly) profanity-free mirror site.
In 1933, British WWI vet Maurice Wilson hatched an unorthodox plan to reach the still-untouched summit of Everest.
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Written by Morgan W.R. Dunn
How a booming oil town aimed to become a western metropolis through one of the most ill-conceived boxing matches of all time.
Written by Alan Bellows
In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another.
Written by Alan Bellows
The story of an unplanned and prolonged skydive through a thunderstorm.