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Thirty Years Ago, People Tried to Save the World By Meditating
Believers in the Harmonic Convergence traveled to places like Chaco Canyon and Stonehenge to welcome aliens, the resurrected Maya and wait for world peace
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Brilliantly White Moose Photographed in Sweden
It took a local politician three years to finally capture a video of the elusive ghostly creature
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Prince Now Has His Own Shade of Purple
The Pantone Color Institute has debuted “Love Symbol #2,” a deep purple based on the late star’s custom-made piano
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Untouched, Century-Old Fruitcake Found In Antarctica
Even generations of penguins refused to touch the concoction believed to have been brought south by the Terra Nova Expedition
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World’s Oldest Man, a Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 113
Candy maker Yisrael Kristal survived Auschwitz and celebrated his bar mitzvah 100 years after turning 13
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A Virtual Exhibit Unites Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers
The global collaboration features five of the six surviving canvases
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Ruth Pfau, “Mother of Leprosy Patients,” Has Died
Over five decades, the German-born physician and nun treated thousand of patients and got the leprosy epidemic under control in Pakistan
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The Centuries-Old Tradition of Military Quilting Is Getting Its First Exhibition in the U.S.
The display celebrates the art and craft of soldiers at war and offers insight into life in the military
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New Horizon’s Next Target Is an Oddly Shaped Asteroid
New data shows that MU69 is less than 20 miles long and may actually be two asteroids orbiting one another
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The German Language Adds 5,000 New Words
The latest edition of the Duden dictionary includes tindern, or online dating, and postfaktisch, meaning post-truth
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Eighty Years Later, Two Exhibits Confront the “Degenerate Art” Purge
In 1937, the Nazis confiscated modernist art from museums and put it up for ridicule in an exhibit that still reverberates today
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Dig Uncovers Artifacts From One of “Europe’s Lost People”
A archaeological excavation in Burghead Fort has uncovered a longhouse from the Picts, a late Iron Age and early Medieval powerhouse
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Gen Xers and Millennials Out-Voted Older Generations in 2016
It’s the first time the younger generations have beat out Baby Boomers, Silent Generation voters and Greatest Generation voters
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Telegraph Recovered from the Wreck of the ‘Lusitania’
After a botched salvage effort last year, the artifact used to communicate with the engine room has now been brought to the surface
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Yes, Sperm Counts Have Been Steadily Declining—But Don’t Freeze Your Sperm Yet
The study is a striking reminder of how much science has to learn about these little wrigglers
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Museum Offers $15,000 Per Character to Decipher Oracle Bone Script
The inscriptions offer detailed information about the Shang Dynasty, but researchers need help to read them
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Disease Found in 99 Percent of Brains Donated by NFL Families
The degenerative brain disease develops after repeated concussions or blows to the head
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Meaty Secrets Behind the Record-Setting, 1,774-Pound Burger
The beefy behemoth was recently bestowed the title of world’s largest commercially available burger
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Snooty, World’s Oldest Captive Manatee, Dies in Accident
The 69-year-old sea cow was the mascot for the South Florida Museum
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Was This Famous Lincoln Letter Written by His Secretary?
After a century of rumors, textual analysis suggests the Bixby letter sent to a grieving mother was penned by John Hay
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