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Don’t touch the Royals: the absurd death of the Queen of Siam in the 19th Century

4 years ago Adam

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Ramesses II: the first (and probably the last) mummy to receive a passport!

4 years ago Adam

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January 1985-2020: the anniversary of the greatest snowfall of the (last) century.

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The Wonders of New York: a Midcentury Map packed with weird local stories

4 years ago Leo S

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The true story of Trim, the adventurous cat belonging to navigator Matthew Flinders

4 years ago Nathan

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Vyborg: Once Finland’s 2nd most influential city, now only a small provincial town somewhere in Russia

4 years ago Adam

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The sunken city of Pavlopetri: the oldest submerged city in the Mediterranean

4 years ago Pavel

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536 AD: the never-ending winter of the worst year in history

4 years ago Adam

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12 rare Color Photographs show the First Nazi Concentration Camps in 1933

4 years ago Adam

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The Snow Child: a black humor medieval folktale

4 years ago Robin

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Joan of Leeds: the nun who faked her own death to escape convent

4 years ago Adam

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Nellie Bly: the Journalist who let herself be interned in Asylum to save the patients

4 years ago Pavel

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The massacre of Gorla and the sad story of its little martyrs

4 years ago Anya016

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Prague: the magnificent European capital cobbled with Jewish gravestones

4 years ago Adam

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1950s Berlin: Photographs of a destroyed city

4 years ago Pavel

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Kola Superdeep Borehole: 12 Km towards the Earth’s core

4 years ago Adam

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Malinta tunnel: war and ghosts in the Philippines

4 years ago Ivan

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The macabre egyptian “Voodoo” Doll, dated back about 3rd-4th Century AD

4 years ago Adam

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The bizarre medieval trials against animals

4 years ago Adam

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Point Nemo: the most remote place on Earth, and Space Vehicles cemetery

4 years ago Adam

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It’s Great To Be Alive! An unintentionally funny safety booklet from the 1950s

4 years ago Nathan

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The “Unknown of the Seine”: the most kissed face of all time!

4 years ago Adam

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The true, complete, unaltered History of 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival – 50 years later

4 years ago Ivan

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Access forbidden for a century – the French “Red Zone”: a no-go area since WWI

4 years ago Adam

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The ancient and strange English custom of wife-selling

4 years ago Adam

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Shoes on the Danube Promenade: the Holocaust Memorial of the Jews of Budapest

4 years ago Pavel

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England’s (almost) forgotten pet massacre of 1939

4 years ago Ivan

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“Sokushinbutsu”: the self-mummification ritual and the myth of non-death

4 years ago Pavel

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Leonid Rogozov: the man who cut out his own appendix

4 years ago Pavel

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21 grams: the experiment that measured the weight of the Soul

4 years ago Adam

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Tacoma Narrows Bridge: the most popular non-fatal engineering disaster in U.S. history~

4 years ago Leo S

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George Parrot: the bandit who was transformed into a pair of shoes

4 years ago Adam

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The ancient Lycians and and their spectacular funerary culture

4 years ago Pavel

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The almost forgotten charm of the Marsh Arabs of Mesopotamia

4 years ago Adam

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“Scold’s bridle”: Renaissance torture that punished the gossip.

4 years ago Adam

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Brno Astronomical Clock: a peculiar clock that commemorates a historic victory

5 years ago Adam

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Little Ease, the torture cell in the London Tower.

5 years ago Adam

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War Pigs: the defense weapon against Elephant attacks

5 years ago Adam

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Eleanor Cobham: the Duchess who wanted to become Queen guilty of Sorcery

5 years ago Adam

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Veii: Rome’s ancient Etruscan rival, now is a park full of ruins.

5 years ago Ivan

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Mallow Bay: the largest fleet of sunken ships in the United States

5 years ago Adam

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Pirates and gallows at Execution Dock: nautical “justice” in modern London.

5 years ago Adam