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An American Who Died Fighting for Indonesia’s Freedom
Bobby Freeberg, a 27-year-old pilot from Kansas, disappeared while flying a supply-filled cargo plane over the Indonesian jungle
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Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process
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Top Ten Reasons to Beware the Ides of March
March 15 will live in infamy beyond the murder of Julius Caesar. Here are 10 events that occurred on that date
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The first memoir by a White House slave recreates the events of August 23, 1814
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A vital stop on China’s ancient Silk Road, the Uighur city of Kashgar may lose its old quarter to plans for “progress”
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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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