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The Breakers: Inside The Opulent Gilded Age Mansion Built By Cornelius Vanderbilt II

Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in the 1890s, the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, is the epitome of a palatial Gilded Age ...
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Archaeologists Believe That This Mass Grave Found In Latvia Holds The Brutalized Victims Of A Viking Raid

A 1,200-year-old burial with six sets of remains that was found at Čunkāni-Dreņģeri cemetery may hold the grisly aftermath of ...
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This Painting Was Purchased At An Estate Sale In Michigan For $30. It Just Sold At Auction For $1.3 Million

In 2025, a man purchased Gertrude Abercrombie's 1951 painting "Alderman Merriam's Shells" in Michigan for $30 — and just sold ...
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‘It Would Have Been Very Gruesome’: Researchers Just Proved That Egyptian Rulers Were Buried With Dozens Of Human Sacrifices

Researchers studying remains from the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qaab in Abydos found that the pharaohs were buried alongside ...
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Melting Ice In Southern Norway Just Revealed Dozens Of Prehistoric Arrows Dating As Far Back As 6,000 Years

Archaeologists exploring Kvitingskjølen mountain recently came across dozens of prehistoric arrows dating as far back as ...
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Archaeologists In Egypt Just Found A 1,900-Year-Old Ring Depicting The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

Archaeologists exploring the waters off Egypt's Mediterranean coast discovered a 1,900-year-old ring emblazoned with an image ...
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Inside The Amazonian Guards, The Elite All-Female Unit That Protected Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi

The Amazonian Guard was formed around the 1980s to protect the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but little is known about the ...
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This Cipher That Napoleon Used Went Unsolved For 217 Years. ChatGPT Just Solved It In Six Hours

Napoleon's cipher to General Auguste de Marmont went unsolved for 217 years — but an AI engineer used ChatGPT to solve it in ...
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The Extraordinary Story Of Unsinkable Sam, The Ship’s Cat That Allegedly Escaped Three Sinkings During World War 2

In 1941, most newspapers were filled with reports of the latest World War II battles and casualty lists. But that November, a remarkable story emerged about an unexpected figure: a black-and-white cat ...
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A New Species Of Dinosaur With Four Wings Was Just Identified By Paleontologists In China

Norellraptor barsboldi was identified in a perfectly-preserved fossil from the Early Cretaceous that was found at the Jiufotang Formation in Chaoyang.
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How A Poor Scottish Botanist Ruined China’s Economy By Stealing A Bunch Of Tea

Botanist Robert Fortune was commissioned by the East India Trading Company to infiltrate China's tea industry and topple the country's monopoly on the beverage. Second only to water, tea is the ...