Zigong: The Sichuan City Where Ancient Wells Drilled a Kilometre Into the Earth
Zigong's ancient salt wells reached 1,000 metres by 1835 using bamboo and iron — and inspired the US oil boom....
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The Unsolved Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels Leads Back to Ernest Shackleton's Brother
How the 1907 theft of the Irish Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle entangled Ernest Shackleton's brother Frank —...
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The Beale Ciphers: America's Unsolved Treasure Mystery Hides in Virginia's Hills
The Beale Ciphers: an unsolved code said to hide millions in gold near Bedford County, Virginia — and the hoax...
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Viking DNA, an Ancient Greek Computer and a Chillatorium: This Week's Weirdest Travel Rabbit Holes
From the ancient Antikythera computer to Charles' abandoned Welsh eco-village and a Portland 'chillatorium' —...
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Message Sticks: How Aboriginal Australia Sent Mail Without Writing
Message sticks: small carved wooden objects Aboriginal Australians used to send invitations and diplomacy acro...
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Sans-Souci: The Ruined Palace Where Haiti's Only King Played Versailles
Sans-Souci, Haiti's ruined royal palace at Milot: how former slave Henri Christophe crowned himself king, buil...
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Florence's Wine Windows: Tiny Renaissance Hatchets With a Surprisingly Modern Story
Florence's buchette del vino — tiny Renaissance wine windows built in 1559, forgotten for a century, then revi...
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The 2010 Annapurna Rescue That Rewrote High-Altitude Helicoptering
How a 2010 longline rescue at 7,000m on Annapurna saved three climbers, changed Himalayan rescues forever, and...
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Kubizuka: The Tokyo Shrine Where a Warrior's Head Still (Allegedly) Glowers
Tokyo's kubizuka shrines hold the severed heads of executed samurai, meant to calm vengeful spirits. Masakado'...
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Berthe Weill: the Paris dealer who made Picasso and Matisse — and finally gets her due
Berthe Weill, the forgotten Paris gallerist behind Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani's first shows — her story a...
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Kenting's Sunny Shores Hide a Forgotten US Military Defeat
The 1867 Formosa Expedition: how 180 US Marines failed against Paiwan fighters near Cape Eluanbi, and what tha...
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Whitechapel Mount: The Artificial Hill That Once Dominated London's East End — Then Vanished
Whitechapel Mount was a 70-foot artificial hill in London's East End — rubbish heap, plague pit or Civil War f...
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