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Scores of lives were lost while building the 816 Nuclear Plant, a long-abandoned nuclear project now open to the public.

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Tour the World’s Biggest Manmade Cave in China

The 816 Nuclear Plant stands as a reminder of a paranoid past

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$25.5 Million Raphael Painting Discovered in Scottish Manor House

An art historian working for a BBC television show recognized a painting in a dark corner as the work of the Renaissance master

Gold signet ring showing five elaborately dressed female figures gathered by a seaside shrine

New Research

Gold Rings Found in Warrior’s Tomb Connect Two Ancient Greek Cultures

Analysis of four gold rings and some 2,000 other recently uncovered objects points to the exchange of ideas and goods between two ancient peoples

New Research

Campsite Places Humans in Argentina 14,000 Years Ago

Excavations at the site Arroyo Seco 2 include stone tools and evidence that humans were hunting giant sloths, giant armadillos and extinct horse species

A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology.

New Research

Hear the Recreated Voice of Ötzi the Iceman

Using CT scans of the Neolithic man’s vocal tract, Italian researchers have approximated the way he pronounced his vowels

View of the Sea at Scheveningen, 1882

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Stolen van Gogh Paintings Recovered After 14 Years

Italian police found the two paintings stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam while investigating organized crime in Naples

Esther Belin is a noted Native American poet and artist, but she is not in Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia Wants You to Improve Its Coverage of Indigenous Peoples

Why does the site that anyone can edit contain so little coverage of native people?

Hello, Aurora.

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Why Iceland’s Biggest City Turned Off Its Lights for One Night

Reykjavik decided to pause in the dark to witness one of Earth’s most beautiful phenomena

Katsuren Castle in Okinawa, Japan is an unlikely place for a cache of ancient Roman coins.

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Archaeologist Finds Ancient Roman Coins in 12th-Century Japanese Castle

East meets west

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When the Inventor of the Diesel Engine Disappeared

Rudolf Diesel’s fate is still intriguing to this day

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Rare Painting by a Victorian-Era Artist Found on “Antiques Roadshow”

You never know what might be lying around the attic

Dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky appears at Moscow's Tagansky District Court on suspicion of vandalism.

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Russian Burger King Campaign Isn’t the First to Mix Art and Advertising

There’s a lot of back-and-forth between these worlds

This book of Grimm's Fairy Tales is entirely written using words with one syllable.

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Channel Childhoods Gone By With This Digital Archive of Victorian Children’s Books

From nursery rhymes to religious lectures, this digital archive shows how kids read in a bygone age

American soldier wearing gas masks in the trenches during World War I

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This Documentary Series Will Teach You About World War I in Real Time

A week-by-week approach to the Great War

This grocery store's shelves are lined with 100% wasted food.

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This Supermarket Sells Only Wasted Food

It’s a yummy solution to a worldwide problem

The Wavertree, an 1885 tall ship, is back in New York's harbor after a 16-month-long restoration.

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An 1885 Ship Just Sailed Back to New York City

After a 16-month-long overhaul, the Wavertree has been restored to her former glory

The statue of Lenin where it formerly stood on the roof of the Red Square building on E Houston Street.

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A Statue of Lenin Has Finally Come Down from Red Square…in New York City

One of Manhattan’s strangest buildings has lost its mascot

This photo by Girma Berta on Instagram helped win the photographer a $10,000 grant.

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Getty Instagram Grant Winners Document the Drama of the Everyday

From teen moms to slices of street life

Al Capone's criminal record in 1932. Despite a litany of charges, he ended up being nabbed for tax evasion.

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This Letter Tells What Al Capone Was Up to in Alcatraz

Two words: prison band

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New Movie Posters Turn Scientists Into Superheroes

The Center for Infectious Disease Research recasts the fight against disease in a series of movie and comic book-style posters

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