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Kronborg Castle, listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, is known as the setting of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.

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Celebrate Shakespeare’s Legacy at Hamlet’s Castle

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! A bed awaits at “Elsinore”

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An Italian Senator Wants Kids to Learn About Wine in School

A bill would add wine classes to elementary school curriculums

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This Mural Honoring Garbage Collectors Covers More Than 50 Buildings in Cairo

An enormous painting brightens up one of Cairo’s poorest neighborhoods

Researchers once thought these holes were from food prep. They were wrong.

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Neolithic People Were Also Strip Miners

Quarries are changing how archaeologists think about the Stone Age

Every single one of the 148 million pixels in this portrait was based on Rembrandt's body of work.

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“New” Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master’s Death

The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work

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After 36 Years, Archivists Finally Found the Wright Brothers’ Airplane Patent

The missing patent was found safe and sound in a Kansas storage facility

The HMNZS Bellona in April 1947, just before the crew mutinied.

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Following WWII, New Zealand’s Navy Was Rocked With Peaceful Mutinies

More than 20 percent of the Royal New Zealand Navy was discharged for protesting low pay

A box from Zuppardi's in West Haven, Connecticut.

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Chicago Is Getting a Pizza Museum

Hold the anchovies: This pop-up is a pizza-lover’s dream

University of California, Irvine students playing League of Legends.

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UC Irvine Becomes the First American Public University To Offer E-Sports Scholarships

The university jumps into the world of competitive gaming

A man with a mind-controlled prosthetic competes in a test run of October's Cybathlon in Switzerland.

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Switzerland Will Host the First Cyborg Olympics

The “Cybathlon” will show what happens when humans and machines collaborate

Welles' Kane was a thinly-veiled portrait of the man who tried to take him down.

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How Hearst Tried to Stop ‘Citizen Kane’

The newspaper mogul hated the film more than previously thought

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Dog Owners Beware, DNA in Dog Poop Could Be Used to Track You Down

A Chicago apartment building is trying out a new scheme to catch four-legged offenders and their humans

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This Transgender Archive’s Oldest Artifacts Tell a Story of Courage and Community

The Digital Transgender Archive was born out of two researchers’ frustration with finding materials by and about transgender people

Book hoarding has never been so lucrative.

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Competitive Book Collecting Is a Thing

Young bibliophiles duke it out in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest

Shocking.

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Tesla vs. Edison Is a Video Game That Will Literally Shock You

Fight the ‘War of the Currents’

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An AI-Written Novella Almost Won a Literary Prize

A short novel co-written by humans and AI passed the first round of a Japanese literary contest

This Tube is full of mosquitoes.

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The London Underground Has Its Own Mosquito Subspecies

Take a bite out of this strange evolutionary example

A self-portrait made by Johnny Rotten on the walls of the studio where the Sex Pistols recorded their first demos.

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Johnny Rotten’s Graffiti Made These Buildings Historic Landmarks

The Sex Pistols’ home and recording studio are now protected as a cultural heritage sites

A red pigment reference from the Forbes Pigment Collection helped prove that a supposed Jackson Pollock painting was a fake.

This Could Be the World’s Most Colorful Library

Harvard’s Forbes Pigment Collection preserves some of history’s most precious colors—and helps conserve the world’s greatest art

Tom Randle plays Macheath, or “Mack the Knife,” in a production of Benjamin Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera.

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The Strange Career of “Mack the Knife”

As old Macheath is inducted into the National Recording Registry, here’s a look back at his long musical life

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