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America's most famous road doesn't officially exist. Look for Route 66 on a modern highway map and you'll find a ghost — decommissioned in 1985, its shield signs taken…
Time feels like the most objective thing we measure, and the system we use to measure it is almost entirely a set of historical accidents. Here are twelve of them.…
A grand hotel lobby is a piece of architecture the public was always meant to walk into. These twelve have histories worth knowing and interiors worth seeing, and in most…
When something arrives from elsewhere, people tend to name it after wherever it came through rather than wherever it came from. Multiply that by a few centuries of trade and…
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The curse of Tutankhamun is one of the most durable stories in popular history. Nearly everyone knows the shape of it: archaeologists disturbed a pharaoh's rest, and one after…
A bottle of champagne is under roughly five to six atmospheres of pressure. That is comparable to the pressure at a depth of around 50 metres of water, and about…