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This Himalayan Lake Turns Up Skeletons Every Year

This Himalayan Lake Turns Up Skeletons Every Year

Archaeologists are more than a little stumped

John Dillinger baseball player

John Dillinger's Other Career Path: Pro Baseball Player

Silver Spitfire WWII Airplane

This Restored WWII Spitfire Has Begun a Circumnavigation of the Globe

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The State of Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorists in 2019

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

How Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Created the Modern Road Trip

Inside One of the Most Spectacular and Dangerous Bank Heists in U.S. History

Inside One of the Most Spectacular and Dangerous Bank Heists in U.S. History

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The Distinctive Lives That Made Apollo 11

Jackie Kennedy's Martha's Vineyard Home

Architecture & Real Estate

You Can Own Jackie Kennedy’s Martha’s Vineyard Estate for a Cool $65 Million

The Statue of Liberty’s New Museum Confronts Some Uncomfortable Truths

The Statue of Liberty’s New Museum Confronts Some Uncomfortable Truths

November 1961. East Germans fortify the border at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, expanding the concrete wall and adding a barbed-wire fence. (Photo credit: CIA archives)

Meet the Soviet Defector Who Started the Cold War

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Ancient Hallucinogens Discovered in Bolivia

Author Jo Vigor-Mungovin leaves flowers at the unmarked grave of "Elephant Man" Joseph Merrick, which she recently discovered in the City of London Cemetery. (Screenshot: Twitter)

“Elephant Man” Biographer Announces Discovery of His Unmarked Grave

Virginia Hall is in the spotlight. (Getty Images)

Why CIA Spy Virginia Hall Has Captured Pop Culture’s Attention

A letter from the doomed Titanic is up for auction. (Getty Images)

Titanic Victim’s Letter Surfaces Recalling Near-Collision as Doomed Liner Left Port

Ernest Hemingway

Meet the Female Writer Who Influenced Hemingway’s Wartime Fiction

Wally Funk Mercury

Honoring the Mercury 13: Astronaut Women in the Shadow of NASA’s Men

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Alexander Nevsky. From a private collection. (Getty)

Epic “Battle of the Ice” Rivaled the Casualties of “Game of Thrones”

President Harry S. Truman signs the North Atlantic Pact (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Truman to Trump: NATO Turns 70

Civil rights leaders meet with President John F Kennedy in 1963. (Getty)

The Day the Government “Solved” JFK and MLK’s Assassinations

Gazing at the cosmos 160 years ago yielded a mystery planet that wasn't there. (Getty Images)

Vulcan-mania: Discovering the Planet That Wasn’t There

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How the Melissa Virus Changed the Internet

John Lennon

Revisiting John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In 50 Years Later

The title page of 'The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament' by Thomas Clarkson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Why Our Congress Couldn’t Stop Slavery, But UK’s Parliament Could

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1931: On the stage - in person, Hardeen, brother of Houdini, handcuffs and jails will not hold him: the greatest mystery show of all times. Also with mentalist supreme, Princess Yvonne, the mystery girl. (Photo by Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

How Houdini’s Brother Kept His Act (and Legacy) Alive

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10 Great Contributions of GOP Presidents on Republican Party’s 165th Anniversary

"Pat Lyon at the Forge," an 1829 portrait by John Neagle. Lyon was falsely accused of perpetrating the first bank robbery in the United States in 1798. (Photo credit: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

What Not to Do After Robbing a Bank: Put the Money Right Back

5th December 1973: Cars queuing for fuel during the oil crisis of 1973. (Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Could the US Be Barreling Toward Another Oil Crisis?

Princeton, New Jersey: Physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), seated in book-filled office. (Getty Images)

How Einstein Found the Formula for Failure

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