Music History #4: “Cloudbusting”
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of Bill DeMain’s new(ish) column, where he explores the real historical events that inspired various songs. “Music History” appears twice a month—unless we...
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A Brief History of Olympic Defectors
Getty Images For some athletes, the Olympics aren’t just a competition: they’re a chance to escape oppression. Earlier this week, seven of Cameroon’s athletes disappeared from London’s Olympic...
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World War I Centennial: Albanians Capture Skopje, Massacre at Kochana
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that killed millions and set the continent of Europe on the path to further calamity two decades later. But it didn’t come out of nowhere. With the...
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7 Absolutely Insane Animal Defense Mechanisms
Scientists recently recorded footage of a never-before-seen defense mechanism deployed by a small species of deep-sea squid: When threatened, the squid attacks its predator and then pulls away,...
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World War I Centennial: France Tells Russia England Will Fight Germany
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that killed millions and set the continent of Europe on the path to further calamity two decades later. But it didn’t come out of nowhere. With the...
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11 Monarchs Who Went Insane
With election season in full swing, perhaps it’s time to take a step back and be glad that neither candidate makes out with corpses or thinks they have bones made of glass. Whether they were born with...
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Conveniently Peeled Bananas
The European supermarket chain Billa uses a slogan urging more “common sense.” Then at least one store in Austria offered bananas for sale as you see here: peeled and packaged in styrofoam trays with...
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10 Legendary Monsters of Europe
There are monsters all around us -or at least the legends of monsters. Last week we saw some of the monsters of Asia. Now here are some of the scariest monsters of Europe. 1. Kelpie The Kelpie lives in...
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There Once was a Man Who was a Dwarf and Later a Giant
Neatorama presents a guest post from Today I Found Out, a website where you can learn interesting facts every day. Check ‘em out today! Photo courtesy of TheTallestMan.com – used with permission. Visit...
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WWI Centennial: The Conference of London Convenes
The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that killed millions and set the continent of Europe on the path to further calamity two decades later. But it didn’t come out of nowhere. With the...
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