Dorothy Arzner (left) poses with Clara Bow in a publicity shot for The Wild Party.

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Why Was One of Hollywood’s First Female Film Directors, Dorothy Arzner, Forgotten?

Arzner directed 20 feature films

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Obama Just Established Three New National Monuments Covering Over a Million Acres

Art, fossils and natural beauty

A bontebok

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Ever Heard of the Bontebok? It’s an African Animal Humans Nearly Destroyed, Then Saved

Part of this conservation success story relies on the bontebok’s inability to jump

Researchers discovered a red ochre- and milk-based paint on a stone flake from 49,000 years ago.

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In South Africa, People Painted with Cow Milk Long Before They Domesticated Cattle

The need to hunt wild cow relatives would have made this paint valuable

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Why Is there Wine on the UNESCO World Heritage List?

Bordeaux, Champagne wine regions get world heritage designations

Eric Muenter bombed the U.S. Capitol building in July 1915.

In 1915 a Former Harvard Professor Tried to Blow Up the U.S. Capitol

Driven by anti-war sentiment, he went on to carry out several terrorist attacks in NYC to protest U.S. involvement in WWI

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Croquet Was Once the Big Thing at Wimbledon

The club has croquet to thank for its famous lawns

As part of a bioweapon experiment, Serratia marcescens (pictured on an agar plate above) was released in San Francisco back in 1950.

In 1950, the U.S. Released a Bioweapon in San Francisco

This was one of hundreds of bioweapon simulations carried out in the 1950s and 1960s

Benjamin Rush, prominent colonial physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote a treatise on alcohol in 1784 that still influences how medicine views substance abuse today.

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Meet the Doctor Who Convinced America to Sober Up

Meet Benjamin Rush, father of the temperance movement, signer of the Declaration of Independence

A portion of the Great Wall of China in a more rural area

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More than 1,200 Miles of China’s Great Wall Have Been Destroyed

Only a small fraction of the remaining wall is in good condition

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Summer Jobs May Be a Thing of the Past

Fewer than one third of American teens snag summer employment

Pasquino in Rome

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Have Something Rude to Say? Put it on This 2300-Year Old Statue in Rome

A cardinal started the tradition of decorating this statue with snarky poems and insults

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This Mockumentary Explains the Appeal of Skateboarding to Scared Parents

“The Devil’s Toy” looks “an epidemic from which no one was secure”: having fun on skateboards

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People Used to Wear Dunce Caps to Shower

“Extinguisher caps” were nineteenth-century shower caps

Hitler's signature on one of his watercolors.

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Did an Auction of Hitler’s Art Go Too Far?

A collection of Hitler’s paintings just sold for $450,000

A mermaid as depicted in Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee, published in 1883.

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The Murky Tale of John Smith and the Mermaid

Alexander Dumas probably just made it up

Little Havana, Miami, Florida.

Urban Explorations

These Are the Most Threatened Historical Places in America

The Grand Canyon, The Factory and the A.G. Gaston Motel are just a few of the 11 names on the list

New Research

In Egypt, There Was Once a Tomb Full of Eight Million Dog Mummies

Devotees of the Ancient Egyptian deity Anubis buried dogs at the necropolis of Saqqara

These 15th-century female musicians are clearly in grave medical danger.

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Some 19th-Century Physicians Thought Music Could Infect the Brain

When it comes to music in the brain, medicine has come a long way

These tags were used to identify slaves before emancipation

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Juneteenth Didn’t Stop the Enslavement of Black People in Houston

The delayed enforcement of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation still didn’t bring freedom to many black Texans

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