WHEN NOTHING IS A REALLY BIG DEAL
How I Rediscovered The Oldest Zero In History
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You cannot overstate the importance of nothingness.
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Histories
BURIED TREASURE
Ancient Discovery Set To Rewrite Australian History
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Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ‘‘X’’ might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history.
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JODOROWSKY'S DUNE
The Sci-Fi Classic That Never Was
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The unbelievable story of the most influential movie never made.
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USELESS BITS OF TRIVIA
Where Does The Phrase 'Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop' Come From?
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This makes so much sense now.
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LINEAR B
Who Cracked The Ancient Code Of The Mysterious Knossos Labyrinth?
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When Alice Kober died at the age of 45, she was a forgotten and ignored classics professor. But she arguably did more than anyone to decode what was then the oldest written European language known to exist.
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GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
The Myth Of Jackie Mitchell, The Girl Who Struck Out Ruth And Gehrig
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Were her curves too much for Ruth and Gehrig?
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TIMELESS TIMEPIECES
The Strange Story Of Marie Antoinette's Watch
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It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace.
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2,060 MINUTES
Imagine Being Alone In Space And Almost Not Making It Back
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Gordo Cooper and the last American solo flight in space.
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FROM HORSES TO HORSEPOWER
Who Made That Motorcade?
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“Here is a fine new word,” wrote an Iowa sports columnist in 1911. Back then, the slang term “motorcade” — a riff on “cavalcade” — described any kind of derring-do by a team of drivers.
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THE MEN UNDER THE WIGS
10 Facial Reconstructions Of Famous Historical Figures
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Why look at a painting of a historical figure when you can come face to face with one? Forensic facial reconstruction using scans of skeletal remains allows researchers to create 3D models of the face through a combination of science, history, and artistic interpretation.
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