Some of the most senior people inside the U.S. military recently found themselves in an unusual position: sitting in a room, connected to physiological sensors, answering questions while investigators searched for the source of leaks from t...
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When George Herbert, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, died in Cairo on April 5, 1923, the timing was almost too perfect for a sensational story. Only months earlier he had stood with archaeologist...
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When Iñupiat hunters and biologists began finding ancient weapon fragments inside bowhead whales harvested in Arctic Alaska, the discoveries posed an extraordinary question: how long had the...
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One of the longest-running myths in American history is that George Washington had wooden teeth. It’s a fun image—revolutionary dentures, colonial oak—but completely false. In reality, Wa...
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Before there were alien abductions and Area 51 memes, there were the Contactees. These were people—mostly in the 1950s—who claimed not only to see UFOs, but to have had face-to-face chats wi...
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Cardinal Jackson, Frontrunner in the Conclave, Could Become Pope Ezekiel I As anticipation builds for the upcoming papal conclave, one name continues to resonate within the corridors of t...
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George Washington was the first president of the United States. He was a Founding Father of the United States and played a leading role in the American War of Independence.
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When was the first robot created? The first robot was created in 1956 by American electronic engineer George Devol. His creation, called "Unimate", was a programmable mechanical arm that cou...
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Georges Pompidou - Georges Pompidou was the President of France from 1969 to 1974 and during his term, he led the country through a period of great social, cultural, and economic changes.
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