This could have been Britain during World War II, but Operation Bernhard was foiled after the Allies learned about the plan.

The Nazis Planned to Bomb Britain With Forged Bank Notes

But Operation Bernhard never made it rain

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Happy Leap Day! Brought to You by Julius Caesar

The leap year has a long history, stretching all the way back to 46 B.C.E.

This 1956 poster is just one of thousands of items of Rosa Parks' personal collection now digitized by the Library of Congress.

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Rosa Parks’ Papers Are Now Online

Read about everything from her meditations on the Civil Rights Movement to her recipe for “featherlite” peanut butter pancakes

The secretly-made 3D scan of Nefertiti's bust.

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Thanks to Sneaky Scanners, Anyone Can 3D Print a Copy of Nefertiti’s Bust

Scans of the famous sculpture are free for the taking

Shackleton brought everything from trashy novels to accounts of Arctic rescues with him to Antarctica.

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Historians Finally Figured Out What Was on Shackleton’s Bookshelf

The brave explorer likely found solace in his library

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What the All Writs Act of 1789 Has to Do With the iPhone

How a law signed by George Washington is being applied to Apple

The Apollo 10 lunar module prepares for redocking.

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Mysterious “Music” Spooked Apollo 10 Astronauts

Archival audio reveals eerie sounds heard by astronauts on the dark side of the moon

Up to 925,000 Jews and Romani were murdered at Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp near Warsaw, Poland.

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Last Survivor of Treblinka, Final Destination for Up to 925,000 People, Has Died

Samuel Willenberg devoted the rest of his life to honoring those murdered at the camp

The perfectly preserved Bronze Age wheels in the dig go round and round.

Archaeologists Uncovered a Perfect Bronze Age Wheel

Excavations at “Britain’s Pompeii” are on a roll

Did the prehistoric civilization of Easter Island really "collapse"?

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New Evidence Finds That Easter Island Wasn’t Destroyed by War After All

Did islanders really experience a catastrophic “collapse” of their own making?

Mozart and Salieri—rivals or BFFs?

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A German Composer Uncovered a Collaboration Between Mozart and Salieri

Their epic rivalry might not have been all that

This man needs a makeover.

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The Lincoln Memorial Is Getting a Makeover

The four-year restoration will cost a pretty penny

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This Unfinished Film Highlights the Daily Lives of Black Americans in the 1960s

‘The American Negro’ shares stories of black surgeons, mothers and workers

Former Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Thomas Peter Lantos (D-Calif.) and his poodle, Gigi.

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Congress Won’t Pay For Official Portraits Anymore

The government will stop using taxpayer dollars to immortalize lawmakers in the traditional fashion

A rendering of the newly reopened Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, California.

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Glow to This Flickering Tribute to Neon

The past shines at the Museum of Neon Art in Southern California

This kitten, though adorable, was not one of the post office cats.

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A Brief History of Post Office Cats

Mail used to come with a side of meow

Michelangelo painted some of art history's greatest hands.

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Michelangelo May Have Had Arthritis

Researchers used old portraits and letters to study the master’s hands

Hospital Apprentices second class Ruth C. Isaacs, Katherine Horton and Inez Patterson (left to right) were the first black WAVES to enter the Hospital Corps School at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. Photographed March 2, 1945.

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Photographs Document Some of the First Black Women to Serve With the U.S. Navy

Black women were not allowed to join WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) until 1944

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British Monks Discovered a Curry Recipe in a 200-Year-Old Cookbook

The Portuguese brought the dish to Europe when they began colonizing India

A pre-production sketch of Persephone, a human princess that served as a test run for Walt Disney's "Snow White."

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Snow White Wasn’t the First Disney Princess

Dwarfs, meet Persephone

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