North Korea Reportedly Executed Pop Singers And Dancers
So far, only one South Korean outlet has reported on this latest possible atrocity, and unfortunately it will probably remain that way
The U.S. Knew Iraq Was Using Chemical Weapons, Helped Out Anyway
Recently declassified documents detail the CIA’s knowledge of Iraq’s chemical weapon program in the 1980s
Muriel Siebert, First Woman With a Seat on the Stock Exchange, Dies at Age 80
Siebert bought her seat in 1967, but she remained the only woman on the exchange for almost 10 years after that
The Last of the Watergate Tapes Show Just How Weasely Nixon Was
Nixon’s public declarations and his private communications were a bundle of contradictions
There’s Now Evidence That Other Europeans Beat the Vikings to the North Atlantic
Someone, and we don’t know who, beat the Vikings to the Faroe Islands by as much as 500 years
The CIA Finally Admitted It Orchestrated the Iranian Coup of 1953
A newly-released 1970s internal CIA report admits the agency’s involvement in the 1953 coup
183 Children Died in a Stampede for Toys in 1883
Victoria Hall had at least one good outcome: the invention of outward opening emergency exits and the invention of the “push bar” emergency door
Before Robots, Japan Had Tiny Dolls That Tumbled Down Stairs And Served Tea
Automata paved the way for the creepy, lifelike robots we see today
Crashed Costa Concordia Is Still Sitting in the Water in Italy
It’s been 19 months since the crash, but the ship is still in the water
These Are All the Places That Europeans Actually Discovered
Of all the places you think were discovered by Europeans, how many were actually discovered by Europeans?
These Complex, Beautiful Board Game Pieces Are 5,000 Years Old
With pigs and pyramids and dog-shaped tokens, what kind of game might they have been playing?
Three Things to Know About the Bloodshed in Egypt
Hundreds of people were killed in Egypt yesterday. Here’s your primer
America’s Founders Were Scarily Young on July 4, 1776
How old were famous Revolutionary War figures on July 4, 1776?
Archaeologist Found This Huge, Beautiful Mayan Frieze Completely Intact in Guatemala
An incredibly well-preserved 26-by-8-feet frieze may shed light on Mayan political history around AD 590
Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
The End of the Henrietta Lacks Saga?
The U.S. National Institutes of Health created an agreement with the Lacks family regarding access to the HeLa genome
In 1916, Georgia Tech Beat Cumberland College, 222 to 0
The story of the game is a bit more delicious than just an insane beat down. It involves revenge, baseball, clerical errors and thousands of dollars
What Queen Elizabeth II Would Have Said If Nuclear War Started in the 1980s
Undelivered speeches give a glimpse into alternate realities that never came to pass
Mysterious Coffin-in-a-Coffin Found Under the Same Parking Lot as Richard III
The only marker on the coffin lid is a cross, but the person must have been of high social status to warrant such an elaborate burial
Canada’s Forgotten Experiments on Malnourished Indigenous Kids
During this period in history, the Canadian government strongly promoted a reeducation program of sorts for indigenous children
Here’s What Nagasaki Would Have Looked Like If the Tsar Bomba Had Replaced ‘Fat Man’
A Google Earth add-on helps you understand the strength of the world’s nuclear arsenal
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