The Unspeakable Tragedy Of Human Zoos
For almost 50 years, zoos and traveling exhibitions featured much more than animals. So-called exotic humans, brought back from what ...
Read moreFor almost 50 years, zoos and traveling exhibitions featured much more than animals. So-called exotic humans, brought back from what ...
Read moreOne of the most enduring stereotypes about Marxism is its supposed opposition to and rejection of capitalism. However, Marx’s explanation ...
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Read moreThroughout the world, people are preaching the concept of “breatharianism”--- the notion that the human body requires only air to ...
Read moreIn the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach and a team of researchers began an experiment in which they gathered three ...
Read moreWe think of spiders as viciously predatory, injecting venom into their prey and sucking out the liquefied innards. However, there ...
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Read moreAl Capone might be the most notorious mobster in American history, but he wasn't a match for James "Tex" Lucas. ...
Read moreThe military scientists of World War II were quite creative . . . in a scary sort of way. One of their weirdest inventions ...
Read moreA number of factors have caused the population of cheetahs to plummet. Facing extinction, conservationists are turning to various creative ...
Read moreBaby raccoons might look cute, but when they grow up, they start getting a tad unruly. After all, they're wild ...
Read moreWhile most people are terrified of snakes, Bill Haast handled these legless reptiles every single day. After opening his famous ...
Read moreDuring the well-documented Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a pool of water used for emergencies in case of a break in the ...
Read moreWe all know gunfighters didn't really square off against each other like the characters in Shane and Gunsmoke . . . only sometimes they ...
Read moreAfter the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, the citizens of Tomioka, Japan were ordered to evacuate. Today, the city ...
Read moreThe Chinese show Interviews Before Execution took reality TV to unsettling new levels. For six years, reporter Ding Yu interviewed ...
Read moreNapoleon IV, grand-nephew to Napoleon and son to Napoleon III, was killed by Zulus while serving with the British in ...
Read moreArchaeology is one of those careers we'd all like to have, as long as we can be Indiana Jones. It's ...
Read moreIn 1893, 220 Australians sailed out of Sydney to start a new life in Paraguay. Their settlement, named New Australia, ...
Read more"Certain species of flatworm have been gradually taught to run a maze. If you grind them up and feed them ...
Read moreIt's a habit that some people find relief in, and others find annoying. Everyone who's done it has probably been ...
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