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Wimpy vs McDonald’s: The Battle of the Burgers

When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of modernity, global connection, and convenience

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The Wolf That Devours Gods & the Human Shadow

We usually think of monsters as things to be feared or destroyed. Yet sometimes they carry messages we would not hear in any other form.

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Playing God: Mossad’s Murder of Achmed Bouchiki

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the cinema. The woman was seven

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Predynastic Rock Art Reveals Egypt's First Kings Claimed Divine Power

Predynastic Rock Art Reveals Egypt’s First Kings Claimed Divine Power Revolutionary discoveries in Egypt’s Eastern Desert are rewriting our understanding of how the world’s earliest

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Punk Rock Dinosaur Rewrites Prehistoric Armor Evolution

Scientists have discovered that the world’s oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate, living or extinct. The 165-million-year-old Spicomellus

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Three Colossal Statues Rise from Egypt's Sunken City After 2,000 Years

In a landmark archaeological achievement, Egypt has successfully recovered three monumental statues from the Mediterranean seabed of Abu Qir Bay, marking the country’s first major

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When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

From the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With Parliament and law courts in summer recess, and with little

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Neanderthal Workshop Reveals Advanced Tool Maintenance 70,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed compelling evidence of sophisticated Neanderthal behavior at a 70,000-year-old workshop site in the Zwoleńka River Valley. The remarkable discovery demonstrates

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Cowboy Diplomacy in the Spanish-American War

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 had seen Mexico concede

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Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the sun’. The kingdom was Spain,