In the 1920s, zoologist Ilya Ivanov won Soviet state funding to try to cross humans with apes. The experiments failed — but it was politics, not biology, that finished him.
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On September 2, 1944, anti-aircraft fire set George H.W. Bush’s plane alight over Chichijima, and a submarine pulled him from the sea. Eight other American airmen captured near the island were never seen alive again.
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From the smoke over Battleship Row to the surrender deck of the USS Missouri: fifty photographs of the Pacific war, in chronological order, taken by Navy photographer’s mates, Marine combat correspondents, Signal Corps crews and a few Japanese naval aviators.
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In 1984 Nike was losing ground and needed a pivot. It bet everything on one rookie — who wore Adidas, didn’t like Nike, and had to be talked into taking the meeting by his mother.
In August 1943, 34,000 American and Canadian troops stormed the Aleutian island of Kiska to dislodge a Japanese garrison that had already slipped away. They took hundreds of casualties anyway — most of them inflicted by each other in the fog.
Japan has had a history of intense political fragmentation, and its relationship with global trade networks and even outside contact in general has been tenuous. In the mid-sixteenth century, Christianity’s appearance inside Japan was inextricably tied to these facts. While the religion initially surged thanks to the support of powerful allies like Oda Nobunaga, it
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When people think of conquering a mountain, Everest almost ubiquitously comes to mind. While it is impossible to know how many people have truly reached the summit, this journey has been documented repeatedly since 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay proved that a successful summit was possible. However, even the most experienced mountain
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Civilizations throughout history have approached succession from numerous fronts, from religiously ordained kings to democracy and trials by physical prowess. These decisions arise from cultural, religious, and social beliefs, and what one civilization may view as just, another may not. In the case of the Ottomans, the means of succession occupied a middle ground: accepted
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Siege warfare has been an effective strategy for military success for thousands of years, and the introduction of modern weaponry did not change such tactics; it only refined them. However, while political and military leadership address concepts such as blockades and sieges on paper, it is the citizens who live through the reality of those
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Who hasn’t dreamed of discovering buried treasure at least once? From tattered pirate maps to legends of lost cities filled with priceless artifacts, humanity has been fascinated with uncovering the riches of the ages. The search for hidden gold, silver, and precious gems has led to many fascinating treasure discoveries over the years. These hidden
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