Eight Plane Wrecks That Have Become Their Own Memorials
(via Atlas Obscura) Some flights go down over remote, inaccessible spots that make it difficult to recover the remains. Other planes are
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Month: May 2016
From Cold Case To Positive ID: An Art Class Helps Uncover Victims
The Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art pairs sculpture students with skulls from actual cold cases.
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The Century-Old Comic Strip Devoted to Cheese-Fueled Nightmares
The relationship between greasy midnight snacks and unusual dreams began logically enough–when Americans started staying up into the pre-dawn hours rather
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This is the World’s Most Iconic Coffee Cup
Whether you take it black or loaded with milk and sugar, if you’ve been to New York, you’ve had coffee
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Introducing the World’s Largest Insect
A previously-undiscovered species of stick insect has officially been denoted the longest insect in the world, measuring a whopping 62.4
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Why the Mother of Mother’s Day Hated Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 8 is Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis, the Mother of Mother’s Day, LOVED her mom. She loved her mother
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White-Knuckle Adventures in Early Dentistry
(via Collectors Weekly) With all those gleaming, stainless-steel tools readied for painful prodding, few people look forward to visiting the
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Life Along the Berlin Wall
(via Retronaut) Twenty-five years after its rapid construction, the Berlin Wall had settled into a seemingly permanent place in the
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The Parking Lot Theater in Detroit
The Michigan theatre was built in 1926 at a cost of $5 million, close to $60 million today. Designed to
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How to identify any language at a glance
Thankss to globalization, it’s very likely that at some point you’ve found yourself faced with a line of text written
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Tilt Brush – A New Kind of Fun
Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light,
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Love Mac ‘n Cheese? Thank Thomas Jefferson
Founding father, co-author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States. All great achievements. But, we should also
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