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    The NASA Astronaut That Believes The Earth Was Created 6000 Years Ago

    The NASA Astronaut That Believes The Earth Was Created 6000 Years Ago

    To hear Charlie Duke tell it, his life's most important moment did not come 50 years ago, when he became the 10th and youngest of 12...
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    The Fall Of Rome In A Nutshell (Sort Of)

    The Fall Of Rome In A Nutshell (Sort Of)

    The gradual process of decline that brought the Roman Empire to an end is one of the all-time favourite history topics. That a nation so...
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    Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame

    Leonardo Da Vinci's To-Do List Will Put You To Shame

    Tucked away somewhere, maybe in a pocket notepad, scribbled on some paper in your wallet or buried in an obscure app you rarely use, is a...
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    Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.

    Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna.

    If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have...
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    The Woman Who Got Herself Committed In Order To Improve Conditions In A NYC Mental Institute

    The Woman Who Got Herself Committed In Order To Improve Conditions In A NYC Mental Institute

    In 1887, intrepid reporter Nellie Bly pretended she was 'crazy' and got herself committed, all to help improve conditions in a New York...
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    In 1900 This Is What They Thought The Year 2000 Would Be Like

    In 1900 This Is What They Thought The Year 2000 Would Be Like

    In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000. The...
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    Tony Hancock, The Lonely Death Of A Comic Giant

    Tony Hancock, The Lonely Death Of A Comic Giant

    On 25 June 1968 iconic comedian Tony Hancock was found dead in a flat in Sydney Australia after taking an overdose of sleeping pills....
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    The Birth And Survival OF St. Paul's Cathedral

    The Birth And Survival OF St. Paul's Cathedral

    June 21, 1675 — The foundation stone for St. Paul’s, one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, was laid on this day as work began...
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    Liverpool Vs Oswald Mosley

    Liverpool Vs Oswald Mosley

    Many will already be familiar with the story of the scumbag fascist leader Oswald Mosley, he rose to fame in the 1920s while serving as...
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    Ernest Hemingway's Final Hours

    Ernest Hemingway's Final Hours

    July 2, 1961 — Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, adventurer, war correspondent, bullfighter, drinker and all-round macho...
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    A Million Casualties For 5 Miles Of Mud

    A Million Casualties For 5 Miles Of Mud

    July 1, 1916 — The First World War Battle of the Somme began on this day – one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history and the worst...
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    The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham

    The 1920's Aerial Photographs Of Alfred Buckham

    Alfred Buckham's first ambition was to be a painter, but after seeing Turner's pictures in the National Gallery, he returned home and...
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    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)

    The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819), written by “a gentleman who has made the...
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    ‘Why I Hate My Uncle’ And Want To Send Him To Hell, Says William Hitler (1939)

    ‘Why I Hate My Uncle’ And Want To Send Him To Hell, Says William Hitler (1939)

    In Look Magazine issue July 4, 1939 you can read a story by William P. Hitler. It’s called “Why I Hate My Uncle”. William Patrick “Willy”...
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    ‘God Help You’: John Lennon’s Vicious Letter To Linda And Paul McCartney (1971)

    ‘God Help You’: John Lennon’s Vicious Letter To Linda And Paul McCartney (1971)

    In 1971, John Lennon wrote to Linda and Paul McCartney, a response that was triggered by a letter from Linda in which she had admonished...
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    Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts

    Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts

    In A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart – Exhibiting its internal communications, and the facilities and dangers to Travellers...
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    Remembering The Time When Refugees Fled War-Torn Europe For Havens In The Middle East

    Remembering The Time When Refugees Fled War-Torn Europe For Havens In The Middle East

    Looking for peace in the Sinai desert When Axis and Soviet forces invaded Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the early years of World War...
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    1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place.

    1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place.

    A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin. In January...
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    The Bonkers Lives of Roman Athletes

    The Bonkers Lives of Roman Athletes

    Mosaic depicting a charioteer and horse from the Russata (Red) faction, 3rd century AD Athletes are justifiably pleased if they earn...
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    Irena Sendler -The woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children during WW2

    Irena Sendler -The woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children during WW2

    Irena Sendler is credited with having saved the lives of some 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War. By...
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    The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Microphotography of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley.

    The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Microphotography of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley.

    What kind of a blighted society turns the word “snowflake” into an insult?, I sometimes catch myself thinking, but then again, I’ve never...
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    Chanel No 5: How The Perfume Came To Be.

    Chanel No 5: How The Perfume Came To Be.

    In 1921, an outrageously clever French businesswoman and belle of the Parisian social elite created a scent that revolutionised the way...
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    Motown: The Sound That Changed America

    Motown: The Sound That Changed America

    Above the front windows of Motown Records' Detroit headquarters was a sign that read "Hitsville U.S.A." Placed there by Motown founder...
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    13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

    13 Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

    Geographical fun: being humorous outlines of various countries, with an introduction and descriptive lines is a 1860s book compiled by...
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