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In the last years of the nineteenth century the population of Berlin was expanding rapidly. The attendant issues of housing large numbers of people in cramped conditions were not far behind. By 1898 the German National Insurance Institute had a sanatorium built for the victims of tuberculosis. Beelitz-Heilstätten (or the Beelitz Sanitorium) steadily grew and functioned for many decades, playing host to a number of infamous patients, including Adolf Hitler. Yet most of it is now abandoned.
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Milo is an 11-pound dachshund and Bonedigger is a 500-pound lion. But that didn’t stop these two from becoming the best of friends. In...
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This article discusses the WWII practice of forging postage stamps – something everyday yet significant, aimed at ultimately undermining the enemy.
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We recently spoke with collector Genevieve Cummins, co-author of the book "Chatelaines: Utility to Glorious Extravagance," about the forgott...
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New DNA evidence helps solve a long-standing debate over what caused the Justinianic Plague. |
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Chinese scientists trace the rare white colouration in Bengal tigers to a single change in a gene that affects a host of animals, including humans.
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We’ve all done our fair share of faking it. Whether it’s a canned excited response when that one particularly eccentric aunt gives you a Christmas
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Where Children Sleep - stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedrooms. When Fabrica asked me to come up with an idea for engaging with children's rights, I found myself thinking about my bedroom: how significant it was during my childhood, and how it reflected what I had and who I was. It occurred to me that a way to address some of the complex situations and social issues affecting children would be to look at the bedrooms of children in all kinds of different circumstances.
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One of the most stunning sights on earth is the endless, incredibly loud wonder of literally tons of water falling over the edge of a rock face every second, in a veritable kaleidoscope of rainbow colors that can take away your breath. We wanted to find out more, so we decided to research what the tallest waterfalls in the world were, measured by the highest drops.
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There are probably hundreds of famous living trees in the world. They are mostly known because of its location, age, size, unusual appearance, connections with some historical events or because of strange uses by humans.
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If this looks like an entrance to a world completely alien to most of us, that's because it is. These tunnels lead to Manhattan.
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A geometric enigma, a convoluted mind-bender dropped upon us from the wonderful extra-dimensional realm of topology, the Klein Bottle is perhaps even popular with artists and architects than the ubiquitous Moebius strip. In fact, the Klein Bottle is what happens when you merge two Moebius Strips together: the resulting shape will still have only one side - with its inside and outside merging into one!
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If you're interested in the history of space exploration, you've heard of the Mercury 7. But have your heard of their (unofficial) female counterparts, the Mercury 13? |
