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Deutsche Physik: The Germanized and Aryan Physics Some Nazi Scientists Opposed to Einstein’s Relativity
What does physics have to do with politics? Or racism? The answer is nothing… unless we are talking about Germany in the ...
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Damo, the Philosopher Daughter of Pythagoras, to Whom He Entrusted All His Writings and Who Never Wanted to Sell Them, Preferring Poverty Over Gold
According to tradition, Damo was born in Croton, a prosperous city of Magna Graecia, around the year 535 BCE. She was the ...
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An Exceptional Viking Sword Forged in the Late 9th Century, Found by an Army Museum Employee While Swimming in a River in Poland
In November 2024, the Army Museum in Białystok unveiled an impressive historical treasure: a Viking-era sword, dated between ...
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1st century AD Underground Cisterns Found in Egypt, Surrounded by Vestiges of the Battle of El Alamein
The ancient ruins of Derhis (modern-day Darazya), located 100 kilometers west of Alexandria near the Gulf of the Arabs, ...
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The Curious Connection Between Edison and a Japanese Shrine Through Bamboo
In 1964, Madeleine Edison Sloane traveled to Japan and visited Iwashimizu Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine located in Kyoto Prefecture near the city of Yawata. The purpose of her visit was not tourism but ...
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The Story of the “White Woman” Captive of the Australian Aboriginals and Her Subsequent Liberation
From the myth of Prester John to the character of Tarzan, the idea of a Western white person living among jungle natives has always been intriguing. Thus, the legend that emerged in mid-19th-century ...
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A Pre-Hispanic Dock and Navigable Canal Connecting to Lake Texcoco Found Beneath Chapultepec Ave. in Mexico City
View of the pre-Hispanic pier timbers discovered under Mexico City. Credit: Fabián González / INAH Beneath the bustling Chapultepec Ave., in the heart of Mexico City, a team from the National ...
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Small Spoon-Shaped Objects for Measuring Doses Reveal Northern European Barbarian Warriors Used Stimulants in Battle During the Roman Era
In ancient conflicts, courage and resilience were essential qualities for warriors venturing onto the battlefield. However, a recent study has uncovered evidence suggesting that these attributes did ...
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Footprints of Two Different Hominin Species Found in the Same Place and Time For the First Time, Coexisting in the Pleistocene
More than a million years ago, on a warm and vibrant African savanna near Lake Turkana in what is now Kenya, two entirely different species of hominins shared the same geographic space. This discovery ...
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Schienenzeppelin, the Strange Experimental German Train Powered by a Propeller That Held the Speed Record Until 1954
Rear view of the vehicle with its propeller on a Berlin platform. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-11902 / Georg Pahl / Wikimedia Commons Although looking at the images might suggest a Japanese bullet ...
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What Did Dinosaurs Eat to Grow So Large? New Findings in Their Droppings Reveal How They Achieved Supremacy
Feeding evidence inferred from bite marks and synchrotron-scanned bromalites from Krasiejów, Lisowice and Sołtyków. Credit: M. Qvarnström et al. / Nature Approximately 200 million years ago, during ...
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A Bone Stylus for Writing on Wax Tablets and Other Objects Discovered in the Celtic Oppidum of Altenburg-Rheinau
Between August and October of this year, the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (LAD) of Stuttgart, Germany, conducted a new phase of archaeological investigations in Altenburg, located in the municipality ...