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One Small Step For Mail

There are few who would call postal delivery exciting. The reasons for this attitude are difficult to pin down, but i...

Written by Christopher S. Putnam • 20 Aug 2007 • Read →

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Damn Write (Reloaded)

Once again, we here at Damn Interesting are in search of proficient purveyors of intriguing information. But as a bi...

Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Aug 2007 • Read →

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This Looks Like a Job for Vermin!

The common rat is hideous thing to behold. Two species make up what we call the true rat: the black rat Rattus rattus...

Written by Jason Bellows • 13 Aug 2007 • Read →

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Raiders of the Lost Lake

In the early 1990s, a Russian drilling rig encountered something peculiar two miles beneath the coldest and most deso...

Written by Alan Bellows • 06 Aug 2007 • Read →

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The Star Dust Mystery

The passenger manifest for British South American Airlines (BSAA) flight CS-59 might have made a perfect character li...

Written by Matt Castle • 30 Jul 2007 • Read →

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The Thugs of India

On a well-worn road through central India, Lieutenant Subhani of the Bengal Native Infantry and his three traveling c...

Written by Christopher S. Putnam • 23 Jul 2007 • Read →

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The Intrepid Pigeoneers

In October 1918, World War I was gradually drawing to a close in the Argonne Forest in northeastern France. Inch by...

Written by Alan Bellows • 18 Jul 2007 • Read →

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Coley’s Cancer-Killing Concoction

On October 1st 1890, William B. Coley, a young bone surgeon barely two years out of medical school, saw one of his fi...

Written by Matt Castle • 13 Jul 2007 • Read →

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Tesla’s Tower of Power

In 1901, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordi...

Written by Alan Bellows • 10 Jul 2007 • Read →

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On the Origin of Circuits

In a unique laboratory in Sussex, England, a computer carefully scrutinized every member of large and diverse set of...

Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2007 • Read →

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