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The Viking Lenses: Did the Vikings make a telescope?

The Vikings were famous for their love of exploration and discovery. Their journeys to new lands and discoveries of new cultures are well documented. But did they also make a telescope for this particular purpose? Perhaps unsurprisingly, the answer is not clear cut.

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⬝ Jan8,2024 8:12pm

The Nebraska Miracle West End Baptist Church Explosion

The Nebraska Miracle: The incredible story of the West End Baptist Church Explosion

When the West End Baptist Church of Nebraska exploded in 1950, no one was injured because every single member of the choir was coincidentally late in arriving for practice that evening.

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⬝ Jan8,2024 5:53pm

The mysterious ‘Giant of Kandahar’ allegedly killed by US special forces in Afghanistan

The Kandahar giant was a massive humanoid creature standing 3-4 meters tall. American soldiers allegedly ran into him and killed him in Afghanistan.

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⬝ Jan8,2024 5:49pm

Homunculi: Did the “little men” of ancient alchemy exist?

The practice of alchemy stretches back to ancient times, but the word itself dates only from the early 17th century. It comes from the Arabic kimiya and an earlier Persian…

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⬝ Jan7,2024 10:53am

Animal and human life may have first emerged in China – 518-million-year-old-rocks suggest

A recently published study was based on an analysis of rocks that are 518-million-years-old and contain the oldest collection of fossils that scientists currently have on record. According to the…

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⬝ Jan6,2024 8:15pm

Red paint on 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins

The gold mask found in Peru was used in the burial of an elite leader from the Sican culture.

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⬝ Jan6,2024 6:11pm

Unusual fossil shows rare evidence of a mammal attacking a dinosaur

Newly discovered fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Lujiatun of the Yixian Formation in China show a deadly battle between a Gobiconodont mammal and a Psittacosaurid dinosaur.

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⬝ Jan6,2024 4:42pm

Greek farmer unexpectedly discovers 3,400-year-old burial chamber concealed underneath his olive grove

An excavation in an eight-foot-deep pit yielded two ancient coffins and a collection of funerary vases.

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⬝ Jan6,2024 3:06pm

The Boy in the Box: ‘America’s Unknown Child’ is still unidentified

The "Boy in the Box" had died of blunt force trauma, and was bruised in many places, but none of his bones had been broken. There were no signs that the unidentified boy had been raped or sexually assaulted in any way. The case remains unsolved to this day.

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⬝ Jan6,2024 7:55am