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Meet the real-life pirates of the Caribbean – not a Jack Sparrow among them
Young Picasso had to burn his own paintings for warmth in his freezing Paris apartment
Hoop Rolling: A popular children’s pursuit since Ancient Greece, in the 1840s there was a movement to ban it
Built in the wrong place, this Australian lighthouse caused more than 20 shipwrecks
All King Eric did was cause conflicts and create enemies, and when he was about to be deposed, he fled the kingdom and became a pirate
Two mummies in the British Museum reveal some of the world’s oldest known tattoos, including that of a bull
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
Sutro Baths in San Francisco: In 1896, it was the biggest indoor swimming pool the world ever witnessed
In mid-1800s, the terrain and climate of American Southwest posed a daunting challenge, so a solution was found: Buy camels
Miraculous Sole Survivor of Plane Crash was Saved by the Food Cart
