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Prince Harry Working With De-Miners in Angola

Campaign echoes his mother’s work against landmines decades before

Connemara

Uncovering the Secret History of Connemara, Ireland

Leonardo da Vinci Bridge

Leonardo da Vinci Designed One Hell of a Bridge, MIT’s 3D-Printing Confirms

A visitor takes a mobile photo of a picture of Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Swedish multinational furniture retailer IKEA, at the IKEA museum in Almhult, Sweden, on January 28, 2018. (OLA TORKELSSON/AFP/Getty Images)

New Book Addresses IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad's Nazi Past

Meaher State Park

How the Last American Slave Ship Could Remake the Reparations Debate

A Palestinian excavator holds on July 16, 2019, a flint stone blade found in the rubble at the archeological excavation site of a settlement from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age), discovered during archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Motza Junction, about 5km west of Jerusalem. - The settlement is the largest known in Israel from that period and one of the largest of its kind in the region. (Photo by GALI TIBBON / AFP)

Ruins of 5000-Year-Old Metropolis Uncovered in Israel

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How the Trial of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Changed Books Forever

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona

22 Archaeological Sites Could Be Destroyed by President Trump’s Wall

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Iowa Man Makes Unexpected Donation to Ute Land Trust

Helen Cromwell

The Foul-Mouthed Milwaukee Bartender That Connected Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy

Pilot Amelia Earhart poses for a portrait in and airplane in circa 1936. (Library of Congress/Getty Images)

Amelia Earhart Expedition Ends Without Locating Her Plane

This Himalayan Lake Turns Up Skeletons Every Year

This Himalayan Lake Turns Up Skeletons Every Year

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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

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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

Alexander Nevsky. From a private collection. (Getty)

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

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