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It Belongs in a Museum
In January 2010, two journalists knocked on the door of 84-year-old Frenchman Jacques Bellanger to ask him about the...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 23 Nov 2020 •
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A Wealth of Insight
At the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, social psychologist Paul Piff paired off approximately 200 u...
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Alan Bellows
• 16 Nov 2020 •
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The Unknown Father
Alois Schicklgruber was never quite certain who his father was. Born in 1837, Schicklgruber was the child of Maria An...
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Alan Bellows
• 09 Nov 2020 •
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The Overlooked Amendment
"Article the Second" was a single-sentence amendment written by James Madison in 1789, intended to be added to the Un...
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Alan Bellows
• 02 Nov 2020 •
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One Small Step for a Man
During the development of the Apollo moon missions in the early 1960s, the newfangled government agency called “NASA”...
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Alan Bellows
• 26 Oct 2020 •
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Half a Thought
The smallest denomination coin ever circulated in the United States was valued at five milles, equivalent to one 200t...
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Alan Bellows
• 19 Oct 2020 •
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Let Us Be Joyful
Laßt Froh Uns Sein ("Let Us Be Joyful") is a short musical canon in B-flat major for six voices, written by the celeb...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 12 Oct 2020 •
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How Miss Shilling’s Orifice Helped Win the War
How a female engineer defied all norms to save England in the Second World War.
Written by
James Holloway
• 09 Oct 2020 •
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It’s Not Rocket Science
One of the most dramatic surgical procedures still performed on human patients is the hemispherectomy, or the removal...
Written by
Marisa Brook
• 05 Oct 2020 •
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Misguided Missiles
In April 1929 in the town of Naco, Arizona, the Cristero War was raging just over the border in Mexico. Rebels in tha...
Written by
Alan Bellows
• 28 Sep 2020 •
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