How did Easter Islanders lift statues' thirteen-ton hats? Researchers may have the answer.
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Three myths most Americans believe (Japanese surrender in WW2, Cold War, nuclear bomb threat)
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The American Revolution’s greatest leader was openly gay
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A fascinating map of medieval trade routes
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Traumatic license: An oral history of Action Park
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No gods no masters: A history of anarchism (part 1 of 3)
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What would happen if historians made their research notes public?
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Bear necessities: The big brown bear who helped Polish troops in WWII
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Truth and consequences: In complicated times, a case for more skepticism
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The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book.
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Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu — A tale of ancient philosophers, alien abductions, murder-for-hire and how the world’s largest pearl came to be the centerpiece of an 80-year-old hoax
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Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
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The Battle of Ilerda (49 B.C.E.)
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Nat Turner Rebellion
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Ninety-eight years of mail fraud - how the postal letter became a tool for ingenious criminality
4 votes