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The Godfather of Extreme Skiing
Meet Yuichiro Miura, the man who skied down Mt. Everest more than 50 years ago
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Liberated in 1945, the Nazi concentration camp is one of Eastern Europe’s most visited sites—and most fragile
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The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World
Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world
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Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen
Apocalyptic predictions are nothing new—they have been around for millennia
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A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala
A chance discovery of police archives may reveal the fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in Guatemala’s civil war
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Over the past 150 years, bodybuilders have gone from circus sideshows to celebrities, imparting fitness lessons along the way
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Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?
A computer scientist is helping to uncover the secrets of the inscribed symbols of the Indus
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The fossils found in the Burgess Shale include the 500-million-year-old ancestors of most modern animals
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A trove of spectacular objects from the Kremlin’s collection highlights Ottoman opulence
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In Damascus, Restoring Beit Farhi and the City’s Jewish Past
An architect works to restore the grand palace of Raphael Farhi, one of the most powerful men in the Ottoman world
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