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Project Babylon: Gerald Bull’s Downfall

Gerald Bull is a prime example of a man who created his own luck--unfortunately for him most of it was bad. A brillia...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 26 May 2006 • Read →

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Does Your Handwriting Express Your Personality?

It is a technique used all over the world, and training in it is widely offered. Many employers, especially in France...

Written by Marisa Brook • 25 May 2006 • Read →

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Flying Rams

During World War 2, large bombers and flying fortresses were considered critical for victory by both the Allied and A...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 22 May 2006 • Read →

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Exhuming the Glacier Girl

In the early days of the Second World War, Allied forces began Operation Bolero, a daring and risky effort to bring A...

Written by Alan Bellows • 21 May 2006 • Read →

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Another World

Try to imagine a world without numbers. No more addition or subtraction, algebra nor calculus. No more high school ge...

Written by Daniel Lew • 19 May 2006 • Read →

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This Place is Not a Place of Honor

If you look at it just right, the universal radiation warning symbol looks a bit like an angel. The circle in the mid...

Written by Alan Bellows • 17 May 2006 • Read →

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Feral Children

"Monkey boys," "wolf girls," "gazelle boys," and even an "ostrich boy;" they are all part of the lore of the feral ch...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 15 May 2006 • Read →

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The Reporter Who Out-Spied a Spy

Summer 1878: With the end of the two-year Russo-Turkish War, the countries of Europe gathered at the Congress of Berl...

Written by Marisa Brook • 12 May 2006 • Read →

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Mincemeat and the Imaginary Man

Early in the morning on the 1st of May 1943, a fisherman on a beach in Spain discovered a waterlogged corpse which ha...

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 May 2006 • Read →

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Calorie Reduction for Longer Life

Would you be willing to semi-starve in order to live longer? More to the point, would you be willing to semi-starve s...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 07 May 2006 • Read →

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