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The grand but flawed 17th century Swedish warship “Vasa” sank on her maiden voyage, but in 1961 the ship was completely recovered
When Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, over 100,000 people swarmed the streets of New York City in riots during the funeral and several women committed suicide
The legendary Edinburgh Castle occupies the site of a 350-million-year-old plug of an extinct volcano
One of Iceland’s last turf houses still has a summer resident
The Good Cemeterian: Мan spends his Sundays cleaning forgotten veterans’ tombstones
The group photo of the Solvay Conference in 1927 is likely “the most intelligent” picture ever taken
New secret tunnel discovered under the Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico may have been built to replicate the underworld
Malham Cove: A Harry Potter location and briefly the highest “single drop” waterfall in England
Blanche Blackwell, the Jamaican heiress who was Ian Fleming’s lover, was far more substantial than a Bond Girl
A stingy member of British Parliament who ate moldy food and sat in the dark was inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge
