Two Dozen Corpses, Beheaded Around 1,400 Years Ago, Found in a Cave in Mexico
In a cave in Mexico, the disembodied corpses of dozens of people
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Valley Fever: The Fungal Spores that Plague Archaeologists
When you spend your time digging in dirt, you get exposed to all sorts of nasty spores
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An Assassin’s Bullet Took Three Years to Kill NYC Mayor William Jay Gaynor
Gaynor collapsed and died from a bullet that had been lodged in his throat for three years - put there by an eventually successful assassin
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In Case You Forgot, Egypt Is Still in the Midst of a Major Conflict
What started a month ago with protests-turned-deadly has not gone away
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Obama Isn’t the First Peace Prize Laureate to Support a War
This isn’t the first time a Peace Prize winner has pushed for war
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The Conflict in Syria Is Damaging the Country’s Historic Sites
The ongoing fighting in Syria is devastating irreplaceable artifacts
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How the NSA Stopped Trying to Prevent the Spread of Encryption And Decided to Just Break It Instead
The NSA spent decades trying to stop the spread of encryption technology
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One of the First Known Chemical Attacks Took Place 1,700 Years Ago in Syria
Sasanian Persians gassed at least 19 Romans by adding sulfur crystals and bitumen to fire in 256 CE
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Libraries Used to Chain Their Books to Shelves, With the Spines Hidden Away
Books have been around a long time, but the way we store them—stacked vertically, spines out—is a relatively recent invention
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The Pentagon Just Built a Mobile Chemical Weapons-Neutralizing Factory
The U.S. army just built a mobile factory that can break down chemical weapons on site
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See How New Yorkers Celebrated Rosh Hashanah a Century Ago
Photographs from the early 1900s show Rosh Hashanah in New York
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Melting Glaciers Are Liberating Ancient Clothes, Like This 1,700-Year-Old Sweater
The well worn, patched up tunic turned up after sections of Norway’s quickly-melting Lendbreen glacier retreated
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How Third-Century China Saw Rome, a Land Ruled by “Minor Kings”
Translations of a 3rd century Chinese text describe Roman life
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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