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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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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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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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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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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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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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2,000-Year-Old Roman Gladiator Arena Uncovered In Turkey
Roman gladiator events so often show up in movies, legends, and the like that it’s sometimes hard to remember that these bloody spectacles actually once happened in real life. And Turkish ...
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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 ...
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Archaeologists Uncover The Oldest Vanilla Pod Ever Found In Europe In A Rubbish Pile At Prague Castle
Today, vanilla is a staple in many kitchens around the world. Native to Mesoamerica, where it was used in cacao drinks for centuries, vanilla eventually became popular among Europeans after it was ...
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Researchers Reconstruct The Face Of A 3,600-Year-Old Woman From Ancient Japan Using Her Molar
When researchers unearthed a woman in 1998 belonging to the now-extinct Jōmon people of ancient Japan, DNA analysis wasn’t quite advanced enough to put this discovery to full use. Over two decades ...