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The Parthenon of Books, built in Germany, is made of 100,000 banned volumes, from “Tom Sawyer” to “The Satanic Verses”
The Red Army’s 2,000 female snipers: Eager for duty, deadly accurate with their Nazi targets
New secret tunnel discovered under the Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico may have been built to replicate the underworld
Otto Skorzeny: The trusted Nazi SS commander and rescuer of Mussolini became a horse-breeder in Ireland
Author Thomas Michael Bond dies at 91: Creator of Paddington Bear was inspired by memories of child evacuees in wartime Britain
Eugene Allen: The African American butler who served under eight presidents, invited to state dinner by the Reagans
The most expensive paintings ever sold
Chaps, the story of the traditional leather protective gear that no cowboy could do without
English brewery delivered bottles of beer door-to-door via horse and cart to keep people out of pubs
Ballpoint pens are sometimes called “biros” after their inventor, László Bíró, a man of “relentless, forward-thinking spirit”
