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…
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On the eastern shore of a salt lake in Argentina's Buenos Aires Province, about four miles from the town of Carhué, stands one of the world's strangest ghost…
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South of Miami, in the town of Homestead, Florida, stands one of the strangest structures in America — a sprawling compound of massive carved stone, complete with towering walls,…
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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…
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On August 25, 1835, readers of a cheap New York daily called the Sun opened their paper to an astonishing announcement. A celebrated astronomer, working from an observatory at…