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Skaters Turned a 100-Year-Old Church Into a Mural-Covered Skatepark
Talk about holy rollers
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The Capitol’s Christmas Tree Is (Partially) Made of Trash
Marine debris bedecks a 74-foot tree from Alaska
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Watch a NASA Scientist School the Empire on How to Build a Better Death Star
Darth Vader could have saved a few dollars by building it around an asteroid
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The Many Roads That Lead to Rome, Visualized
Caveat: not all cities named Rome are in Italy
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Take a Tour of Postwar Tokyo in the 1940s
High-quality archival footage makes a fascinating backdrop in a new music video
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Tomorrow, Saudi Women Will Vote for the First Time
More than 130,000 women have registered to vote
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Test Your Smarts With the British Spy Agency’s Christmas Card Puzzle
Can you solve this head-scratcher?
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Abandoned Beatles Ashram Is Opened to the Public for the First Time in a Long, Long, Long Time
Get back to the site of the Fab Four’s disastrous meditation retreat
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Why Does Moby-Dick (Sometimes) Have a Hyphen?
The hunt for the true story behind Melville’s hyphen is as mysterious as the famous white whale
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When Rock Was Banned in the Soviet Union, Teens Took to Bootlegged Recordings on X-Rays
Teens snuck jazz and rock into the U.S.S.R. on records made of old x-rays
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There’s a ‘War and Peace’ Marathon Going On in Russia
It will take 1,300 readers four days and 60 hours to read the book out loud
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Cut Paper Sculptures Capture the Intricacy of Natural Architecture
Laser and hand cut papers arranged in layers evoke the patterns of microbes, moss, cells and more
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See the Vatican Light Up With Images Warning Against Climate Change
Animals prowled across St. Peter’s Basilica in a move to connect Earth’s beauty with the dangers of climate change
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A French Scientist Says the Mona Lisa is Hiding a Portrait of Another Woman
Some art experts, however, are skeptical
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Bibi the Lioness, a BBC Star, Was Found Poisoned
Bibi and another unidentified lion killed by the poison were part of a pride that filmmakers followed for years
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Finally There’s a Scientific Theory for Why Some Words are Funny
The science behind Dr. Seuss
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A Buddha in Japan Is Missing Half of Its Curls
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The CIA Won’t Reveal What’s in its Secret Art Collection
An art installation questions why the CIA is keeping mum about a series of abstract paintings
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