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The third largest city in California is this huge desert ghost town
California's two largest cities by area, Los Angeles and San Diego, have beautiful beaches and boast more than a million residents.California City, which sits in the tumbleweed and dust-filled Mojave...
View ArticleThis animated map shows how religion spread across the world
Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world. Over the last few thousand years, these religious groups have shaped the course of history and had a...
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9 wars that were technically ongoing due to quirks of diplomacy
Throughout history, a number of conflicts, due to the quirky nature of international diplomacy, never officially ended. Of course, these "extended wars" have never actually had any bearing on...
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How Prohibition gave birth to bad policing, the modern prison system, and...
The period between 1920 and 1933 lives on in our collective memory as a misguided experiment in social control, colorfully defied by flappers, artists, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But historian Lisa...
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This photo shows the dark history of the American bison
The bison is a majestic, if smelly, creature that has called North America home since prehistoric times. Today, the animal thrives in all 50 states.Earlier this month, the US Senate passed a bill that...
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Expert: King Tut's wet nurse may have been his sister
An archaeologist said Sunday that Maia, Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's wet nurse, may have actually been his sister Meritaten, reviving speculation about the identity of the mother of the boy king.DNA...
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Inside Germania, Hitler's massive Nazi utopia that never came to be
In the years leading up to World War II, Adolf Hitler didn't just see Berlin as the capital of Germany — he envisioned it as the capital of the world. But according to historian Roger Moorhouse, Berlin...
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A disturbing Cold War document reveals US plans to nuke more than 1,000...
A chilling 59-year-old document containing an exhaustive list of targets for US nuclear strikes in the event of war with the Soviet Union has been released by the National Security Archive in...
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5 momentous military events that took place on Christmas Day
Christmas is one of the most celebrated holidays on earth. But that doesn't mean that conflicts simply freeze every December 25th. Here's a look at some of the major military events that have fallen on...
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During World War I enemies stopped fighting and celebrated Christmas together
On Christmas Day in 1914, German, British, and French soldiers left their trenches along the western front of World War I to observe the holiday in peace.In the midst of war, soldiers laid down their...
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These incredible images show how Wall Street traded before the Bloomberg...
Today's traders are spoiled by their Bloomberg terminals.Back in the day, before broadband fired live quotes and analysis straight to our smartphones, people used to read bid-ask spreads off of...
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9 mind-blowing archaeological discoveries that transformed history in 2015
When they aren't digging up ancient graves or unearthing the body parts of early human ancestors, archaeologists are combing the Earth for clues about how the people who came before us worked, played,...
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Scientists sequenced the first ancient Irish genomes and found something...
A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast has sequenced the first genomes from ancient Irish people, providing insights into questions about the origins and...
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Incredible ways the world has changed in the past 100 years
The world isn't perfect, but a recent list shows how much progress has been made in the past 100 years.The list, originally compiled by a theater troupe in Del Tura, a community in Florida, has been...
View ArticleOnly sailors truly understand the strange tradition of the New Year's Eve...
The dropping of the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square has been a tradition for over 100 years. We spoke with the agent for the ball itself, Jeffrey Straus, and climbed to the top of One Times Square...
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Why everyone drinks champagne on New Year's Eve
Popping the corks and toasting with a fizzy glass of champagne is a New Year's tradition.Champagne has a lavish history dating back to the 16th century. Long before we started drinking bubbly to ring...
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21 facts show how different the world is today than it was just 100 years ago
Perhaps you've seen that viral list of facts about what life was like in 1915, which was printed in the latest issue of The Tower (a monthly publication of a gated community in Florida).Or maybe you...
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View ArticleThe secret to curing cancer could be buried in our history
Kathryn Hunt was recently awarded a TED fellowship for her work as a paleo-oncologist, studying the history of cancer. She explained to us why looking to the past is so important in the fight against...
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A social psychologist reveals why so many marriages are falling apart and how...
Marriage has always been a gamble, but the modern game is harder and with higher stakes than ever before.Research has revealed, for example, that people in a healthy marriage are some of the happiest...
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