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Located 350 km (217 miles) southeast of Puerto Rico, the British island of Montserrat is sometimes called 'The Emeral...
In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.
In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover fro...
A true story of castaways on a lost and hostile scrap of land, all thanks to some meddlesome Frenchmen and terrible luck.
As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life insurance policies w...
In the days when hunting was a more common pursuit than it is today, those involved in the job cultivated a taxonomy...
Nikolai Vavilov dedicated his life to improving Soviet agriculture and eradicating famine, but his allegiance to science would ultimately lead to his downfall.
When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day was approximately...
It is down to geological and evolutionary happenstance that there are no monkeys on the island of Madagascar: a fact...
It can be tough to give the boss a hint, but it was even more difficult back in the days of domestic servitude when t...
On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt--at that time the Prime Minister of Australia--decided to go for a swim. He and his...
Popeye the Sailor is well known for his penchant for spinach, and the popularity of the character led to generations...
How a booming oil town aimed to become a western metropolis through one of the most ill-conceived boxing matches of all time.
Compared to Earth, our astronomical next-door neighbor Venus is 95 percent as large, 28 percent closer to the sun, an...
What do the American bison, western gorilla, and Eurasian eagle-owl have in common? One answer is that they are all s...
In January 2010, two journalists knocked on the door of 84-year-old Frenchman Jacques Bellanger to ask him about the...
At the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, social psychologist Paul Piff paired off approximately 200 u...
Alois Schicklgruber was never quite certain who his father was. Born in 1837, Schicklgruber was the child of Maria An...
"Article the Second" was a single-sentence amendment written by James Madison in 1789, intended to be added to the Un...
During the development of the Apollo moon missions in the early 1960s, the newfangled government agency called “NASA”...
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