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These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS

Historians, archaeologists and librarians scramble to save precious cultural capital before it can be sold or destroyed by militants

A family tunes in to the 1976 debate

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Americans Have Always Loved to Hate Presidential Debates

Audiences are ambivalent — but they still tune in

The crew of the Bockscar

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The Nagasaki Bombing Almost Didn’t Happen

What really happened on the mission to drop the second atomic bomb

Tsuyuko Nakao, 92 and Kinuyo Ikegami, 77 both survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, pictured here in 2010.

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The Health Effects of the Atom Bomb Are Still Being Studied

Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors influence worldwide radiation standards, even 70 years later

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Blueberries: A Biography

The world’s commercial blueberries all have their roots in New Jersey

The Sydney Opera House at night

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He Designed the Sydney Opera House…But Wasn’t Even Invited to its Opening

Somehow, an inexperienced architect and a mismanaged project still produced one of the world’s most iconic buildings

Aldrin was became the second human to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

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Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too

Read Buzz Aldrin’s expense report and customs form from his Apollo 11 mission to the moon

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Teen Schools Professor on “No Irish Need Apply” Signs

Armed with a Google search and a theory, a 14-year-old enters the fray on a longstanding historical debate

Red Rocks Park, Jefferson County, Colorado.

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The Parks Service Just Added Four New National Historic Landmarks

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A vintage Antonov An-2 in Poland.

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North Korea’s Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s

The An-2 can hover and fly backwards

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A 13th-Century Sword Is Giving Historians a Headache

The sword’s inscription is an 800-year-old mystery

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Scientists Have Been Talking About Greenhouse Gases for 191 Years

The first explorations of the greenhouse effect began in 1824

U.S. Marines search for Haitian rebels in 1919.

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The United States Once Invaded and Occupied Haiti

In 1915, American troops began a 19-year, unofficial occupation of the Caribbean nation

The 7 Line is currently undergoing a system upgrade from one that was installed in the 1930s to one run by computers.

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NYC Subway Technology Goes Way Back…to the 1930s

America’s busiest subway system relies on vintage machines

Photo shows a section of the Florida-Caribbean map. In lower left, an insert section shows part of the Caribbean treasure ground. Note heavy concentration of numbers (each location a shipwreck) off the Louisiana coast, and in the Florida Keys.

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Florida Divers Dig Up $1 Million in Sunken Treasure

Treasure hunters find 300-year-old coins from a Spanish fleet off the Florida coast

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70 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Crashed Into the Empire State Building

14 people died in the accident

Times Square, New York City

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Times Square’s Iconic Billboards May Be Illegal

Bright lights, big city, breaking the law

Dating human remains (such as this 800-year old skeleton found in Bulgaria) often relies on radiocarbon dating

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Climate Change Might Break Carbon Dating

Fossil fuel emissions mess with the ratio of carbon isotopes in the atmosphere

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Who Were the First People to Eat Chickens?

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A stone etching on the grave of crewmember Lt. John Irving depicts the dire conditions that the Franklin expedition faced when they reached the Canadian Arctic.

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Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism

New bone analysis suggests crew resorted to eating flesh, then marrow

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