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Nobody Knows What Sank the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald.’ But Its Doomed Final Voyage Will Always Be America’s Defining Shipwreck

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The Story Behind the World-Famous Photograph of U.S. Marines Raising the American Flag During the Battle of Iwo Jima

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Watch the Record-Breaking Auction of This Gustav Klimt Portrait, Which Just Became the Second Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold

Watch the Record-Breaking Auction of This Gustav Klimt Portrait, Whi…

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The Real Story Behind Netflix’s ‘Death by Lightning’ and the Shocking Assassination of President James A. Garfield

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Did Easter Island’s Mysterious Moai Statues Waddle to Their Final Locations? Here’s What That May Have Looked Like

Did Easter Island’s Mysterious Moai Statues Waddle to Their Final Loc…

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In Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ the Titular Scientist Laments His Nightmarish Creation. But the Real World Can’t Get Enough of His Monster

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The Myth of ‘Bloody Mary,’ England’s First Queen

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The Real Story Behind Apple TV+’s ‘Franklin’

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