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The Most Audacious Australian Prison Break of 1876

An American whaling ship brought together an oddball crew with a dangerous mission: freeing six Irishmen from a jail in western Australia

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The Battle Over Richard III’s Bones…And His Reputation

Rival towns are vying for the king’s remains and his legacy now that his skeleton has been found 500 years after his death

History Beats

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William-Henry Ireland committed a scheme so grand that he fooled even himself into believing he was William Shakespeare's true literary heir
June 2010 | By Doug Stewart

Momentous or Merely Memorable
June 2010 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
May 2010 | By Alison McLean

Bobby Freeberg, a 27-year-old pilot from Kansas, disappeared while flying a supply-filled cargo plane over the Indonesian jungle
March 23, 2010 | By Simon Montlake

Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process
March 09, 2010 | By Sarah Rose

Momentous or Merely Memorable
April 2010 | By Alison McLean

March 15 will live in infamy beyond the murder of Julius Caesar. Here are 10 events that occurred on that date to seal the Ides of March as a fateful day
March 04, 2010 | By T.A. Frail

A vital stop on China's ancient Silk Road, the Uighur city of Kashgar may lose its old quarter to plans for "progress"
March 2010 | By Joshua Hammer

Meet Yuichiro Miura, the man who skied down Mt. Everest 40 years ago
February 09, 2010 | By Paul J. MacArthur

Momentous or Merely Memorable
March 2010 | By Alison McLean

Liberated 65 years ago, the Nazi concentration camp is one of Eastern Europe's most visited sites—and most fragile
February 2010 | By Andrew Curry

Momentous or Merely Memorable
February 2010 | By Alison McLean

These historical humbugs rival Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch in their lack of Christmas spirit
December 07, 2009 | By T.A. Frail

Momentous or Merely Memorable
January 2010 | By Alison McLean

Apocalyptic predictions are nothing new—they have been around for millennia
November 12, 2009 | By Mark Strauss

Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world
December 2009 | By Toby Lester

December 2009 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
November 2009 | By Alison McLean

A chance discovery of police archives may reveal the fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war
October 2009 | By Julian Smith

A traveling exhibition of China's terra cotta warriors sheds new light on the ruler whose tomb they guarded
July 2009 | By Arthur Lubow

A trove of spectacular objects from the Kremlin’s collection highlights Ottoman opulence
June 11, 2009 | By Katy June-Friesen

An architect works to restore the grand palace of Raphael Farhi, one of the most powerful men in the Ottoman world
June 11, 2009 | By Stephen Glain

Momentous or Merely Memorable
October 2009 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
September 2009 | By Alison McLean

Momentous or Merely Memorable
August 2009 | By Alison McLean

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