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On this day in 1881 a mentally disturbed individual shot US President James Garfield

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How collapsing civilizations have helped the world

First Army battalion with mini drones heading to Afghanistan

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The Second Coming of the Robot Pet

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The Troubling Business of Bounty Hunting

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Ice 1.5m thick as Mexican city hit by freak hail

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On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum

Northern Ireland man Norman Surplus completes first round-the-world autogyro flight

Secrets of Chernobyl spill out more than three decades after the nuclear disaster

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An Unlikely Solution to Germany’s East-West Divide

The Great Model Train Robbery

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