Tag: History
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Loading…How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor
In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didn’t add up
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The magic of through running
Commuter trains often stop at the edge of cities. Short tunnels can link them up, creating metro networks for a fraction of the cost of building them from scratch.
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The Person in the Ape
A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes.
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Jongo & Adriano
In the entrails of Rio’s brush, a flight is in process: Jongo, African of Angola, and Adriano, a Brazilian Criollo, risk the dense forest seeking the freedom to be
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King of fruits
Ordinary yellow pineapples were once so precious they were rented for display at dinner parties, but centuries of innovation made them commonplace.
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An unholy alliance
In the 1930s, the rise of Nazism brought centuries of animosity between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants to an end. Why?
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American Ideologies
To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.