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Based solely on camp counselor Susie’s characterization throughout Summer Camp Island’s first and second seasons,…

A trove of elephant tusks found in the cargo hold of an old Portuguese shipwreck is yielding new insights into the…

Johns Hopkins, the 19th century philanthropist whose name graces some of the most prestigious scientific and…

Divers searching for discarded fishing nets in the Baltic Sea have discovered a rare Enigma encryption machine used…

Archaeology is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Instead of using flux capacitors, however,…

Keeping in-theme with the first PSA’s self-awareness, the newest Steven Universe short features Pearl of the Crystal…

Having watched Cannibal! The Musical is one of those things that feels like a badge of honor. The movie was not…

In 2018, the Trump administration fired a White House speechwriter after he was revealed to have spoken at an annual…

The New York Times published an explosive new story on Sunday, revealing that President Donald Trump paid just $750…

A once-in-a-century “climate anomaly” exacerbated the awful conditions along the Western Front in Europe during the…

The most famous name in American ornithology is that of a slave owner, grave robber, and fraud who invented birds…

Apocalypse has arrived on the western landscape. The Bay Area is shrouded in a layer of smoke so thick, it broke…

Star Wars. Indiana Jones. Alien. Planet of the Apes. Author J.W. Rinzler has written books on them all. However, for…

Road crews in Poland stumbled upon a lost 16th-century cemetery, in which the vast majority of graves belong to…

In a bizarre interview with Fox News last night, President Trump stood next to a sculpture in the Oval Office that…

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the…

Facebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market…

Last Friday night, thousands defied New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s curfew order and…

Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not…

When it was built nearly eight decades ago, the Nazi submarine base in Bordeaux, France was meant to house 43 U-Boats