Salomon Andrée's Ill-Fated Arctic Balloon Expedition

Salomon Andrée's Ill-Fated Arctic Balloon Expedition

By the late 19th century,...
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Timothy Dexter’s Curious Business Ventures

Timothy Dexter’s Curious Business Ventures

Timothy Dexter was businessman,...
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Johann Bessler’s Mysterious Rotating Wheel

Johann Bessler’s Mysterious Rotating Wheel

For centuries, inventors...
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Paige Compositor: The Invention That Bankrupted Mark Twain

Paige Compositor: The Invention That Bankrupted Mark Twain

Movabale letter types in...
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James Lind And The First Clinical Trial

James Lind And The First Clinical Trial

In the mid-18th century,...
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The Poyais Scam: A Nation That Never Was

The Poyais Scam: A Nation That Never Was

A panoramic view of Black...
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The Kauri Gum Diggers of New Zealand

The Kauri Gum Diggers of New Zealand

Two Māori gum-diggers pose...
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The 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks

The 1916 Jersey Shore Shark Attacks

Crowds throng the beach...
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Harold Gillies: The Father of Plastic Surgery

Harold Gillies: The Father of Plastic Surgery

This is Walter Yeo, an English...
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Valencia’s Water Tribunal is The World’s Oldest Court

Valencia’s Water Tribunal is The World’s Oldest Court

It’s Thursday, and a sizeable...
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Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer

Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer

Sometime in the summer of...
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Hating Henry Symeonis: An Oxford University Tradition

Hating Henry Symeonis: An Oxford University Tradition

The University of Oxford—one...
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Smile of Silla: The Ancient Artifact That Inspired LG’s Logo

Smile of Silla: The Ancient Artifact That Inspired LG’s Logo

Like all business and corporations,...
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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot: Ecological Villain And Astronomy Artist

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot: Ecological Villain And Astronomy Artist

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot...
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James Tilly Matthews And The Air Loom

James Tilly Matthews And The Air Loom

James Tilly Matthews was...
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Richard of Pudlicott’s Audacious Heist of The King’s Treasury

Richard of Pudlicott’s Audacious Heist of The King’s Treasury

In April 1303, one of the...
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Bachem Ba 349 Natter: Germany’s Strangest Aircraft From World War 2

Bachem Ba 349 Natter: Germany’s Strangest Aircraft From World War 2

World War II led to the creation...
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Australian Iron Man: Ned Kelly’s Final Standoff

Australian Iron Man: Ned Kelly’s Final Standoff

Throughout history, many...
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That Time The US Tried to Make Rain By Shooting Explosives Into The Sky

That Time The US Tried to Make Rain By Shooting Explosives Into The Sky

The idea that humans could...
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