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Inside The Haunting Story Of The Station Nightclub Fire, The 2003 Blaze That Killed 100 Victims
On the night of Feb. 20, 2003, The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island, became one of the deadliest in U.S. history. When the band Jack Russell’s Great White took the stage just after ...
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‘A Catastrophic Event’: A Mass Grave Of Ancient Roman Legionaries Was Just Unearthed Beneath A Soccer Field In Austria
During renovations of a soccer field in Vienna last fall, construction workers came across a startling sight: dozens of skeletons buried in the ground. Archaeologists investigated the scene and ...
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Medieval Manuscript Featuring Legends Of Merlin And King Arthur Found Languishing In Pieces In A British Library
For centuries, the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table at Camelot have stood among the most famous legends in Western history. First popularized in the 12th century, these ...
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The Heartbreaking Murder Of 12-Year-Old Kimberly Leach, The Final Victim Of Ted Bundy
In April 1978, about two months after she went missing, the body of Kimberly Leach was found in a shed near Florida’s Suwannee River State Park. The 12-year-old girl was the final victim of notorious ...
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A Volcanic Eruption In Indonesia Led To Napoleon’s Defeat At Waterloo, Experts Say
The defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is widely believed to be due to the inclement weather in England. But a new study suggests that Napoleon’s misfortune ...
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Meet Roland The Farter, The ‘Indecent’ Royal Flatulist Who Performed For King Henry II
In a sea of medieval jesters, Roland the Farter stands out as one of the most unique performers in history. Roland the Farter, or Roland le Petour, was a 12th-century jester known for his comedic acts ...
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44 Vintage Photos From The 1950s That Are Even More Striking In Color
The 1950s were partly defined by the geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union — better known as the Cold War. The Cold War, and American concerns over the rise of communism ...
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Archaeologists Discover A Massive Ancient City That They’ve Dubbed ‘The Bronze Age New York’
For the past two and a half years, archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have tirelessly worked to uncover the 5,000-year-old city of En Esur. According to Newsweek, experts believe ...
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Researchers Illuminate The Mysteries Behind Roman-Era Sacrifices Of At Least 140 Dogs In A Quarry Pit In England
Archaeological excavations at the former Animal Husbandry Center of Nescot College that were conducted in 2015 revealed a startling mystery: a Roman-era quarry pit filled with a staggering number of ...
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Shadow People: Paranormal Beings That Lurk In Dark Corners — Or The Product Of Sleep Deprivation?
Most people have, at some point, seen something vaguely person-shaped lurking in the dark. Perhaps it’s just a shirt hung on the back of a door or a stuffed animal propped up in the corner. Most of ...
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Life-Size Statues Found Carved Into The Wall Of A Necropolis Just Beneath The Main Entrance Gate To Pompeii
Today, Pompeii is best known for the devastating 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city under layers of rock and ash. However, Pompeii’s history stretches far beyond its sudden and ...
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44 Photos Of Nebraska’s Earliest Settlers — And Their Grueling Lives On The Plains
In 1862, the Homestead Act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, granting American families opportunities to start new lives across millions of acres of federal land in the American West. Between ...