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Lake Nyos sits in a volcanic crater in the highlands of northwestern Cameroon, a deep, still body of water that, for generations, the local people knew simply as a…
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There is a book in the National Library of Sweden that is unlike any other on Earth. It is called the Codex Gigas — Latin for "giant book" —…
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It sounds like folklore: a family, living in an isolated Appalachian hollow, whose skin was blue. Not a faint bluish tinge, but a genuine, striking blue — blue faces,…
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On a low hill in Elbert County, Georgia, in the rural northeastern corner of the state, there stood for over four decades one of the most enigmatic monuments in…
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It is one of the most enduring mysteries of the twentieth century, and one of the eeriest. In the winter of 1959, a group of nine seasoned hikers set…
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On the morning of December 6, 1917, the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was going about its business as a busy wartime port. The First World War was raging…