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Early in the morning of June 30, 1908, over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, the sky tore open. Witnesses dozens of miles away described…
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Long before travel bloggers and bucket lists, the ancient Greeks compiled the original list of must-see sights: the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was, in essence, a…
English has a reputation, only half-joking, for following other languages down dark alleys and rifling through their pockets for loose vocabulary. It is a language built almost entirely out of…
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It is one of the most bizarre documented events in European history, and its strangeness holds up under scrutiny because it is unusually well recorded — noted in multiple…
How many days a country stops working says a lot about it — its religious makeup, its history, its attitude toward rest, and how many different traditions it formally recognizes.…
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The Voynich manuscript is the most stubborn document in the world. It is a real, physical object — roughly 240 surviving pages of vellum, bound, densely handwritten, and lavishly…