This New Orleans monument to a white supremacist riot no longer exists.

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New Orleans Tears Down Controversial Confederate Monuments

A 35-foot obelisk in memory of a white supremacist uprising is no more

The second parchment Declaration of Independence

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Found: A Second Parchment Copy of the Declaration of Independence

Likely commissioned in the 1780s by James Wilson, the handwritten copy’s signatory order appears to emphasize national unity

An early oil well.

A Civil War Colonel Invented Fracking in the 1860s

His first invention was an ‘oil well torpedo,’ but it was followed by others

This map of London shows it around the time of John Gaunt's work.

People Have Been Using Big Data Since the 1600s

A humble hatmaker was among the first to compile data on how Londoners lived—and died

High school: difficult to live through, harder to get right in writing.

‘The Outsiders’ Was Groundbreaking, But It Didn’t Create YA Fiction

Many have claimed that “young adult” fiction didn’t exist before S.E. Hinton wrote her cult classic–but it did, sort of

A 19th century bomb sitting on the lawn of antiques collector Bruce Wescott

Collector Finds Live 19th-Century Cannonball

A fuse appeared to be attached to the explosive device

A spotter with binoculars at an anti-aircraft command post.

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Check Out These Rare Color Images of World War II

The photos are part of a new book from the Imperial War Museums which includes many images published for the first time

The bustle replaced the crinoline as women's underpinnings of choice in the 19th century.

Although Less Deadly Than Crinolines, Bustles Were Still a Pain in the Behind

“The woman with a bustle can never sit down in a natural position,” one 1880s doctor wrote

Though there were two different buildings called the "White House of the Confederacy," the White House–pictured here in 1905–has always remained the White House.

A Tale of Two White Houses

The Confederacy had its own White House—two, actually

Massasoit statue in Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Massasoit, Chief Who Signed Treaty With the Pilgrims, To Be Reburied

After a 20-year search, members of the Wampanoag Nation have collected his remains from museums

This painting by Adriaen Coorte was among art stolen from an East German art collector by the Stasi in the 1980s.

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Germany Will Research Stasi Art Seizures

The Nazis weren’t the only group that looted German treasures

The "Albany Fire Protectors" seen in this undated, probably late-19th century photograph, might have used a fire pole.

Fire Poles Saved Time, But They Also Injured Firefighters

Many fire departments across the country have phased out the pole

Billie Holiday sung 'Strange Fruit' throughout her career after first performing the song in 1939.

Billie Holiday’s Label Wouldn’t Touch ‘Strange Fruit’

The emotive song about lynching in the American South is both a classic and a warning

Reconstruction of the Tham Lod woman who lived 13,600 years ago

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Researchers Work to Take the Bias Out Of Facial Reconstruction

Instead of relying on European-centric data sets, researchers used a global database to help image a 13,600-year-old woman from Thailand

This illustration from The Murders in the Rue Morgue portrays Dupin, the first literary 'genius detective,' questioning a suspect.

Without Edgar Allan Poe, We Wouldn’t Have Sherlock Holmes

C. Auguste Dupin, Poe’s main character, was the first genius detective

John Adams's official presidential portrait, painted circa 1792 by John Turnbull.

John Adams Was the United States’ First Ambassador as Well as Its Second President

Adams’s house in the Hague was the first-ever U.S. Embassy

Men liberated from concentration camp, 1945

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Sealed Files of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Will Finally See Light of Day

The massive archive has already revealed that war crimes charges against Hitler were drawn up as early as 1944

Later Stone Age paintings

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New Technique Shows San Rock Art Is 5,000 Years Old

Using a highly refined form of carbon dating, researchers were able to date the pigments in art in Botswana, Lesotho and South Africa

Thebes is the burial place of seemingly countless Egyptian royals and noblemen.

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Mummies and More Than 1,000 Statues Found in Egyptian Tomb

The treasure was buried near Luxor

This gold and red miter greeted builders when they discovered an unexpected tomb in St. Mary-at-Lambeth.

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Builders Find Remains of Five Archbishops of Canterbury

Turns out the vault in which they were buried wasn’t destroyed by flood after all

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