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Two seasoned outdoorsmen are hiking the Colorado Trail with only tools and...
Coloradans love the great outdoors, but take away our REI and Patagonia, and we’d probably think twice about tackling a fourteener, let alone hiking 521 miles.For their next adventure, Ben Jenkins and...
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This document proves how much ear van Gogh really cut off
A Vincent Van Gogh scholar has found a document explaining exactly how much of his ear the artist cut off back in 1888.Not only does the newly found diagram end a longstanding debate over the extent of...
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Scholars theorize trial by combat served an important economic purpose...
In 1251, the Abbot of Meaux and the Abbot of St. Mary's of York fought over who owned several profitable businesses. Although the abbots did not brawl, it was a literal fight.In accordance with English...
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Here's what history tells us what may happen next with Brexit and Trump
It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals. I am sketching out here opinions based on information, they may prove right, or may...
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Geophysicists just debunked a key assumption about how Earth's continents formed
Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea.Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes, these giant...
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Vintage pictures show what Brooklyn was like in the summer of 1974
It's high summer in New York City, and that means the city feels like the inside of a steam room.But New Yorkers are no strangers to dealing with summer heat and humidity — look no further than this...
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Dolly was the first cloned mammal on Earth — here's what happened to her...
Dolly the sheep made history in 1997, when the scientists who created her announced she was the first cloned mammal to survive.For a while, she was a media star with a profile almost approaching that...
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An artist designed a timeline of the universe that shows you when it began —...
Earth has been around for about 4.5 billion years. The universe has been around for about 13.8 billion years.Taken by themselves, those two numbers probably feel more or less the same. They're both...
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People in Vermont opened a 78-year-old time capsule and were shocked by what...
Opening time capsules can prove disappointing. Decades of rain and snow often destroy their contents before they're opened.Middlebury, Vermont's recent dug-up capsule from 1938 was an exception to that...
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Here's what Goldman Sachs' Henry Goldman said about Hitler's Germany in 1933
When it comes to Nazi Germany, one of the biggest questions most people have is how a country like Germany could transform into the disturbing and destructive state that it became under Adolf Hitler....
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The Smithsonian is hiring a traveling beer drinker for $64,000 a year —...
Ever wish you could drop everything to just roam around the country drinking beer? Your dream job has arrived.The Smithsonian Institute is currently hiring an individual to quite literally travel...
View ArticleWhat 25 major world leaders and dictators looked like when they were young
What 25 major world leaders and dictators looked like when they were youngJoin the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Couples improved their sex lives in a week with this one simple tip
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These surreal composite photos show the haunting legacy of World War I
Even though World War I may have ended nearly a century ago, little has changed — politicians still rattle their verbal sabres as they send their servicemembers off to defend, or in some cases, meet a...
View ArticleThis animated map shows the global expansion of the human race
It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down.But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists, like those working on...
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The clock on a tiny church in Switzerland has been secretly maintained by...
Rolex is one of the most secretive companies in the world.Luckily, their secrets are mostly not of a nefarious sort, such as this one just recently revealed by watch journalist Alan Downing writing for...
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112 years ago, the first Olympics held in the US were a disaster
In 1904, 112 years ago, the Olympics came to the U.S. for the first time. The games, only in their third session, were basically a disaster.St. Louis, the city hosting the event, failed to draw much...
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The most chilling details from the recently found diary of the head of the...
Thought to have been missing for 71 years, around 1,000 pages of Heinrich Himmler's office diary have been recently discovered in a Russian military archive. The entries, which are being published by a...
View ArticleTurns out Trump or Clinton could win the election with just 22% of the...
Not all votes are equal when it comes to electing the president of the United States. Because of the electoral college system, votes cast in smaller states weigh more heavily than those cast in larger...
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These skeletons prove a mythical megaflood really happened
Thousands of years ago, the legend goes, an ancient people living along the banks of the Yellow River in northern China experienced a flood unlike any before it.The waters inundated communities and...
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A bunch of toxic waste from the army's 'Project Iceworm' is going to leak...
As if there weren't already enough reasons to worry about climate change, you can add another to your list: toxic nuclear seepage.Back in the Cold War, a lot of US defense strategy came down to placing...
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