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An ancient landfill: A huge artificial hill in Italy yields helps archaeologists understand how trading networks worked in Rome
Taken in 1826, “View from the Window at Le Gras” is the world’s first photograph
Hiroo Onoda: the legendary Japanese holdout in the Philippines who surrendered 29 years after his country capitulated
Roger Fenton, the very first war photographer, captured the grim reality of the Crimean War
There is an Arctic town in Norway where it is illegal to die and burials are strictly forbidden
Albert Göring, the brother of Hermann Göring, was an anti-Nazi activist who helped hundreds of Jews and assisted the Czech resistance
Salisbury Cathedral could possess the world’s oldest working mechanical clock, still capable of chiming the hour
A Naval engineer’s mistake in WWII led to the invention of the Slinky, one of the world’s top-selling toys
Mysteries surround a 16th century text on magic connected to John Dee that legend says carries a curse
Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, dies after struggling with health issues
