Is the Merchant’s House Museum Underground Railroad Discovery Real?
What historians found in a concealed passage in Manhattan, the evidence for an Underground Railroad safe house, and why secret…
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Is the Palazzo Corpi Poker Game Story Real?
Yes. The Palazzo Corpi poker game story refers to an oft-cited incident in which U.S. ambassador John George Alexander Leishman…
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What Is Dorodango and How Does It Work?
Dorodango is a Japanese craft of shaping mud into a smooth sphere and polishing it until it shines. It works…
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What Were Milk Carton Kids and Did the Campaign Work?
Milk carton kids were missing children whose photos and brief details were printed on milk cartons in the 1980s to…
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Who Was Collingwood Ingram and How Did He Save the Taihaku Cherry?
Collingwood Ingram was an English plantsman and ornithologist who reintroduced Japan’s lost Taihaku cherry in the early 20th century. He…
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Why the Khmer Rouge Killed Intellectuals and City Dwellers (And What It Meant)
The Khmer Rouge killed intellectuals and city dwellers because the movement embraced an extreme agrarian, anti-urban ideology that cast educated…
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What Happened to James Knight’s 1719 Northwest Passage Expedition?
James Knight’s 1719 Northwest Passage expedition wrecked at Marble Island in today’s Nunavut, where the survivors built a shelter and…
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Were People in the Middle Ages Shorter Than Today?
Yes. In Europe, people in the late Middle Ages and early modern period were on average shorter than people today….
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Berlin buried Hitler’s bunker, and that was the point
Walk down a quiet side street a few minutes from the Brandenburg Gate, past embassy blocks and the rippling field…
