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October 18, 2017 12:00PM

The Real-Life Whale That Gave Moby Dick His Name

October 18, 2017 11:19AM

25 Images Capture at-Risk Heritage Sites of the Latest World Monuments Watch

October 18, 2017 10:00AM

How Nicholas Culpeper Brought Medicine to the People

October 17, 2017

The "Unlikely Historians" Who Documented America in Protest

October 17, 2017

How Margarita Cansino Became Rita Hayworth

New Research October 13, 2017

Did Vikings Bury Their Dead in Clothing Bearing the Arabic Word for "Allah"?

October 16, 2017

The Cardiff Giant Was Just a Big Hoax

October 16, 2017

Mark Twain Liked Cats Better Than People

Cool Finds October 13, 2017

Footage Recalls the Night Madison Square Garden Filled With Nazis

Trending Today October 13, 2017

Five Things You Didn't Know About the Boy Scouts of America