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Almost everyone assumes the Caesar salad is named after Julius Caesar, and the assumption is so natural that it barely registers as an assumption. It has a Roman emperor's…
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In October 1869, two workers digging a well behind a barn on a farm in Cardiff, in upstate New York, struck something hard. As they cleared away the earth,…
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In the gray waters of the North Sea, a few miles off the coast of Suffolk in England, stands one of the strangest sovereign claims in the world: a…
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In the hills of Derbyshire, in the English Peak District, sits a village of honey-colored stone cottages, dry stone walls, and quiet lanes that looks, at first glance, like…
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It is one of the most absurd confrontations in the history of two great nations: a standoff that brought the United States and the British Empire to the edge…
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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…