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The end of World War II was marked by the Americans dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, which teed off a [...]

The image above — click here for a larger version — is from a book called the Voynich [...]

Argleton, Lancashire, United Kingdom.  Where is it?  That map above is a screen shot, via Wikipedia, of an [...]

In 2003, Disney and Pixar released Finding Nemo — a ended up with a smash hit on their hands.  It [...]

The slogan “no taxation without representation” was prevalent in Boston in the years leading up [...]

Lemmings.  They jump off cliffs, en masse, following each other toward certain death. Ok, not really.  The [...]

The photo above is a daguerreotype — the first publicly announced type of photograph.   The [...]

> The canard: dig deep enough, and you’ll come out in China.   As children, we all tried it, [...]

In the early 1940s, at age 13, Leona Gage met a 24 year old pilot in the U.S. Air Force named Gene Ennis.  [...]

If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with some of the basic rights guaranteed by [...]