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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…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most misunderstood environmental subject there is, and the misunderstanding is remarkably specific. People do not merely have a vague sense of it;…
Antonio Stradivari worked in Cremona in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the instruments he made have become the most valuable objects in music. Individual examples sell for…
The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and it has become the world's most recognizable monument to grief.…
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the largest and most recognizable monuments on Earth: a limestone figure with the body of a lion and a human head,…
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The QWERTY layout is one of the most successful pieces of interface design in history, in the narrow sense that essentially everyone uses it and nobody can dislodge it.…