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In Mexico, a Gritty Neighborhood Has Become a 65,000-Square-Foot Mural

A hillside in Pachuca gets a psychedelic makeover

Cerveza Zulia is one of Venezuela's most popular beers and its oldest brewery.

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Venezuela Is About to Run Out of Beer

Strict import laws could make Venezuela's taps dry up in just a few weeks

With carrot liqueur, one distillery takes a cue from Bugs Bunny

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Carrot Liqueur Could Be Coming to a Cocktail Near You

What’s Next?! Kale?!

The fragments comprise two parchment leaves, written in Hijazi script on sheep or goat skin.

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Carbon Dating Reveals One of the Oldest Known Copies of the Quran

Manuscript fragments found in U.K. library were written between 568 and 645

Orson Welles as Macbeth in the 1948 film with Jeannette Nolan as Lady Macbeth

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Listen to 98 hours of Shakespeare’s Poems and Plays Performed by Great Actors

The playlist includes the voices of Edith Evans, Dylan Thomas, Orson Welles and Sir Ian McKellen

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Root Beer Is For Adults Again

This is not your soda fountain’s root beer

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You Can Pay for This Transylvanian Music Festival in Blood

Dracula would totally approve of this payment system

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Central Park Has 22 Statues of Historical Figures. Every Single One is a Man.

Could a crusade to bring historic women into the park change the face of the city?

A shadowy scene from F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922).

Someone Stole the Skull of ‘Nosferatu’ Director F.W. Murnau

Thieves left behind traces of wax, suggesting occult practices might be at play here

On July 13, Barnum's American Museum was the site of a disastrous fire.

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150 Years Ago, a Fire in P.T. Barnum's Museum Boiled Two Whales Alive

Attracting tourists and locals alike, the museum mixed freakshow performers with educational collections

Silly humans, Pluto is a dog, not a planet.

Of Course Some People Think NASA's Pluto Pictures Are Fake

Or at least doctored to exclude evidence of alien life.

Visitors to a hot springs resort in Japan enjoy a wine bath.

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What’s the Deal With Wine Baths?

Chemists investigate the science behind the hype

Workmen constructing the Statue of Liberty in Bartholdi's Parisian warehouse workshop in the winter of 1882.

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The Statue of Liberty Arrived in New York in 350 Pieces

Luckily, she also came with an instruction manual

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Australians Are Building a Skyscraper Inspired by Beyoncé

Architects envision a rippling structure that takes a page from the singer’s famous look

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What to Expect From Harper Lee’s Long-Lost Second Novel

Controversy still surrounds the release of <i>Go Set a Watchman</i>

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San Diego’s First Comic-Con Was Held in a Basement

The original fan gathering only attracted 145 people

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Here’s What the First Lady Has to Do if She Wants to Redecorate

A few throw pillows and a touch of new paint? No way.

Dorothy Arzner (left) poses with Clara Bow in a publicity shot for The Wild Party.

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Why Was One of Hollywood's First Female Film Directors, Dorothy Arzner, Forgotten?

Arzner directed 20 feature films

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Conservationists Want You to Stop Building Rock Piles

Cairns have a long history and purpose, one that newer stacks sometimes subvert

Crystalized acetaminophen, the drug in Tylenol

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When This Photographer Got Sick, He Started Taking Beautiful Photos of Painkillers and Tears

The extreme closeups were one way for the photographer to understand what he was taking

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