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This Is What 14,000,000,000 Years of History Looks Like

A designer’s ingenious timeline covers the Big Bang to the Internet

Lee Harvey Oswald stands in his backyard with Marxist newspapers and a rifle. This photo has been looked on with suspicion ever since Oswald called it a fake after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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3D Model Showed Controversial Photo of John F. Kennedy’s Assassin Is Not a Fake

Doubts surrounded the incriminating photo since Kennedy was assassinated in 1963

Edith Wharton had presumably outgrown her rattle by the time this photo was taken in 1877.

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For Sale: Edith Wharton’s $16,500 Baby Rattle

Fanciest. Teething device. Ever.

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Lego Superfans Built This Epic Model of Hadrian’s Wall

The edge of the Roman Empire, recreated with tiny toy blocks

A page of the original King James Bible

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The Origins of the King James Bible

A handwritten draft of the world’s most famous bible has been discovered in England

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This Halloween, Who Wants to Spend a Night in the Paris Catacombs?

Airbnb is looking for two brave souls to sleep with the dead

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Fossilized Teeth Reveal Humans Were in Asia Long Before Europe

Early humans might have been more inclined to roam than scientists previously thought

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There’s a Fake Egyptian City Buried in California

The incredible, nearly forgotten story behind one of Hollywood’s most expensive movie sets

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The Oldest Chemistry Lab in America?

A classroom designed by Thomas Jefferson was rediscovered

Mysterious Neolithic masterpiece...or world's most complicated BBQ joint?

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The People Who Built Stonehenge Loved BBQ

New evidence that Neolithic settlers roasted pork and beef

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America’s in the Midst of a Lobster Boom

With the lobster catch up sixfold in the last 30 years, can we eat without worry?

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How the Journalist Who Broke the News of World War II Got Her Scoop

Somebody needs to make a movie about Clare Hollingworth

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These Brave Playwrights Want to Rewrite Shakespeare

“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps.”

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A Woman Bought a House For $100,000, Then Learned Frank Lloyd Wright Built It

She had no idea her Madison, Wisconsin, home was part of the famous architect’s affordable housing project

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The Only Eyewitness Painting of Lincoln’s Assassination Is Finally Being Restored

How a forgotten portrait of the president’s dying hours was saved

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Ancient Romans in Pompeii Had ‘Perfect Teeth’

A new study reveals what life was like in Pompeii — and how it ended when Mount Vesuvius erupted

Gilgamesh statue at Sydney University

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Iraqi Museum Discovers Missing Lines From the Epic of Gilgamesh

One of the world’s first great stories just got a new chapter

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ISIS Demolished Yet Another Priceless Syrian Monument

The 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph was destroyed on Sunday

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