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History
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Three Students Decoded A 2,000 Year-Old Scroll With AI For A Whopping R13 Million Prize
08 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The general subject of the text is pleasure, which, properly understood, is the highest good in Epicurean philosophy.
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Egypt Wants To Restore A Giza Pyramid To Its Former Glory, But Archeologists Are Not Happy [Video]
05 Feb 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Perhaps a good compromise would be to allow the reconstruction, but only using ancient Egyptian tools and methods.
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A Woman Bought A Vintage Dress At An Antique Store And Finds Cryptic Note Hidden In A Secret Pocket
16 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Cofield’s dress still has a few mysteries, but for now, the biggest one has been solved.
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The Merriam-Webster Word Of The Year For 2023 Has Something To Do With Being Real – Can You Guess?
28 Nov 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2023 is in response to all the nonsense and noise of the current age of post-truth, fake news, deepfakes and artificial intelligence.
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DNA From A Baboon Mummy Revealed The Location Of A Mysterious City Not Found On Any Maps
21 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Geneticists at the University of Konstanz in Germany have however released a new study on baboon DNA that shows these creatures never naturally occurred in Egypt.
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Archaeologists Found The Lost ‘Book Of The Dead’ Buried In An Egyptian Cemetery
03 Nov 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The book’s name may sound ominous, but the proper translation, “The Chapters/Book of Going Forth By Day”, gives it a bit more AVBOB-ish vibe at least.
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Archaeologists Unearth a Medieval Skeleton With ‘Iron Man’ Prosthetic Hand
30 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
This period in European history was extremely bloody and saw a spike in the creation of prosthetics as injured soldiers returned from the numerous conflicts going on in the age.
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Renaissance Art And Aliens – Why Are There So Many UFOs Depicted In Historical Artworks?
20 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Some of the more looney ufologists claim that this actually depicts ‘contact with an alien’, but even X-Files fans might find this hard to swallow.
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Ancient Documents Suggest That Vlad The Impaler Had A Condition That Made Him Cry Blood
16 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The recent study used mass spectrometry to examine the personal letters written by the guy responsible for this reign of terror in an effort to understand him better.
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At 4 850 Years Old This Tree Is Older Than The Pyramids Of Giza
06 Jun 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The location of this tree is, for obvious reasons, a secret, and its discovery led to the creation of the Great Basin National Park in order to protect it and other trees from the species.
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American Princess Finally Evicted From That R9,7 Billion Rome Villa With Famous Mural – “All About Money, Obviously” [Images&Video]
26 Apr 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Her life in the famously pricey villa came to an end as part of a legal dispute with the children of her late husband, Prince Nicolo Boncompagni.
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Jada Pinkett Smith Brought A Docuseries About African Queens To Netflix [Trailer]
16 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Jada Pinkett Smith just released a compelling Netflix docuseries that finally gives African female leaders their due.
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Nifty News: The Classic G&T Was Originally Invented As Medicine
13 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
We have this cocktail because it was basically medicine for sailors back in the day.
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Merriam-Webster Has Chosen Its Word Of The Year
29 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year was introduced to the world in a 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton, but has been thrown into the spotlight once again.
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Facebook Sleuths Are All Over This World War II Photograph
24 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Eagle-eyed Facebook sleuths have pinpointed an odd-looking fellow appearing as though he is talking on a cellphone in a 1940s photograph.
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Instant Karma For Tourist Who Disrespected Mexican Temple [Videos]
23 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
A word of advice for if you ever find yourself visiting the ancient Mayan Temple of Kukulcán at the Chichén Itzá archaeological site in Yucatán, Mexico.
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Mascots For Paris Olympic Games Resemble ‘Clitoris In Trainers’
16 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
When France unveiled the two triangular red mascots for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, they wholly expected that everyone would be impressed with their iconic choice.
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KFC Germany Blames Robots As Promotion Commemorates Raids On Jewish Businesses
11 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
KFC Germany made it across thin ice by legitimately being able to blame an automated system and not get totally cancelled.
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Case Of Missing Nanny-Murderer Lord Lucan Hits Another Snag
08 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Lord Lucan is said to have bludgeoned the nanny of his kids to death and somehow managed to disappear into thin air ever since.
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They Reckon They’ve Found Lord Lucan Almost 50 Years Since His Nanny Was Murdered
07 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Richard John Bingham, known as Lord Lucan, a gambling aristocrat, murder-accused, and once presumed dead fugitive, has apparently been found alive and not so well.
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That Bonkers Story About Julia Roberts’ Birth Turned Out To Be True [Video]
01 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Fans of Julia Roberts have been recirculating a seemingly unbelievable historical fact that connects her to a famous figure.
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You’ll Never Be As Interesting As David Stirling
01 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Lieutenant-Colonel David Stirling, a legend from the Second World War and founder of the Special Air Service (SAS), had one hell of a story to tell.
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Elon Musk Has Nothing On The Actual Richest Man That Ever Lived
17 Oct 2022 by Jacqui / No Comments
Mansa Musa wasn’t afraid to show off his wealth, even embarking on a lavish pilgrimage to Mecca with a flurry of decorated fans.
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You Can Now See The Titanic Wreck In Full 8K [Video]
06 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
No footage of this quality has ever been captured since the British passenger liner hit an iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912.
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Fossils Show Existence Of Loch Ness Monster ‘Plausible’
29 Jul 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The University of Bath has declared that Nessie’s existence is “plausible” after finding that some plesiosaurs may have lived in freshwater.
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Sold! Buzz Aldrin’s Space Jacket Just Set A New Record
27 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong, with the duo becoming the first astronauts to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
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Astonishing: Perfectly Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth Found [Images]
04 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
She was chanced upon by a gold miner named Travis Mudry, astoundingly preserved over all those years thanks to the muddy permafrost tomb that she lay in.
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They’ve Pieced Together The Remarkable Story Behind This Sunken RAF Bomber [Video]
30 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
In 2016, a mysterious aircraft was discovered underwater at a depth of 85 metres off the coast of a tiny island south of Sicily.
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Eerie Pictures From Deepest Ever Shipwreck Discovered
29 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Explorers were excited to find the US vessel famed for a heroic final stand against the Japanese.
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18th-Century Gold Coins And Other Sunken Treasures Found In Colombian Sea [Video]
09 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
As the Colombian navy was monitoring the secret site recently, they chanced upon two new historical shipwrecks in the area with tons of treasures to be found.
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