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2019x1
Pyatak Prison: The Russian Alcatraz
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04, 2019
About 460 km north of Moscow, in the Vologda province, a small lake rests among a sprawling woodland. The lake is called Novozero and its middle stands an island called Ognenny Ostrov. .. show full overview
2019x2
Thonis Herakleion: The Sunken City of the Pharaohs
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05, 2019
The Mediterranean is home to many mysteries and wonders. Both natural beauties and human made shipwrecks lay at the bottom of the sea, awaiting to be discovered. As the famous poem [TA1] .. show full overview
2019x3
Fukushima: The Meltdown
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09, 2019
In 2011, Japan was ravaged by a magnitude 9 earthquake, followed by a massive tsunami. In Fukushima prefecture, TEPCO’s Daiichi Nuclear Reactor exploded and exposed the surrounding area .. show full overview
2019x4
The Catacombs of Paris: The Empire of Death Beneath the City of Lights
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12, 2019
Every city has many layers. Under its grand monuments, museums and Churches, real life goes on. Under its roofs and buildings, the passions, stories and secrets of its inhabitants, move, .. show full overview
2019x5
Pompeii: The Flames of the End
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16, 2019
Life is sweet, if you are not a slave, if you are a Roman Citizen. The Empire extends from Spain to the Black Sea, from Britannia to Egypt. After the year of four emperors, 69 CE, Rome .. show full overview
2019x6
Area 51 – The Home of All Secrets
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19, 2019
For the moment, join me in a visit to the Nevada Desert and let’s find out what the fuss is all about. Where exactly is Area 51 and how it looks like? What are the speculations .. show full overview
2019x7
Tunguska: When the Sky Fell to Earth
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23, 2019
Siberia, Russia, 30th of June 1908. We are in a woodland area surrounding the Tunguska river, not far from modern day Krasnoyarsk. Simply known as Tunguska. One of the most desolate areas of the most desolate region of the Russian Empire.
2019x8
The Seattle Underground: The Hidden City
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26, 2019
Seattle, Washington, is known for being the home of two of the biggest tech companies in the United States- Microsoft, and Amazon.com. With all of its modern charm, few people would ever .. show full overview
2019x9
Pluto: The Frozen World
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30, 2019
Over four billion kilometers away from us lies a distant, frigid world. On its barren surface, nitrogen falls as snow. Vast plains of frozen methane lie in the shadow of ice water .. show full overview
2019x10
The Vatican City State: Good Things Come in Small Packages?
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03, 2019
Spanish author and journalist Arturo Perez-Reverte once defined the Vatican City as the smallest, yet more powerful State on Earth. This tiny City State, nested inside Rome, measures .. show full overview
2019x11
Antarctica: The Edge of the Earth
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07, 2019
It’s the land at the edge of the world. A howling emptiness of jagged mountains, broken icebergs, and endless snow. It’s a song of ice and, well, more ice. A land that’s the coldest, .. show full overview
2019x12
Tikal: The Mayan City of the Jaguar God
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10, 2019
The Maya were a native people of Mexico and Central America who inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas. Their civilization .. show full overview
2019x13
The Sudetenland: The Trigger for WWII
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14, 2019
In the heart of central Europe, in the middle of a deep, dark forest, lies a mountain range that changed the world. It’s smaller than the Alps, less dramatic than the Dolomites, and far .. show full overview
2019x14
Sarajevo: The City and the Siege
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18, 2019
It’s the city where East meets West. On Ferhadija street in the heart of Sarajevo, the grand Austro-Hungarian architecture of Christian Europe suddenly gives way to the low roofs and .. show full overview
2019x15
Klondike: The Last Gold Rush
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21, 2019
It’s been called the last great adventure of the 19th Century. In 1896, prospectors in Yukon Territory fished a thumb sized nugget of gold out Rabbit Creek. The find triggered a human .. show full overview
2019x16
Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong's City of Darkness
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26, 2019
Imagine, if you will, a city of eternal night. A place so intensely crowded that sunlight never penetrates its alleyways. Overhead, wires dangle from the ceilings. Neon signs fizz in .. show full overview
2019x17
The Tower of London: History's Most Notorious Prison
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29, 2019
In the annals of world history, there are a handful of prisons whose very names are guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine. Alcatraz is one, Devil’s Island another. But even these .. show full overview
2019x18
The Berlin Wall: Escaping for Freedom and Love
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31, 2019
To many, this marked the beginning of the Cold War. Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ may have been a figure of speech, but across many borders in Europe this division took the form of physical .. show full overview
2019x19
The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre, Napoleon, and Revolution!
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04, 2019
Originally constructed as a 16th Century City Hall, the Hotel de Ville has stood at the epicenter of the wildest events in history. It was on its doorstep that the French Revolution .. show full overview
2019x20
Ellis Island: Gateway to the American Dream
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07, 2019
On January 1st, 1892, Anne led her two younger brothers off their boat, still gasping at the sight of the colossal statue raising the torch of Liberty over New York City. Anne was met by .. show full overview
2019x21
Aralsk 7: The USSR’s Anthrax Island
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11, 2019
Aralsk 7: The USSR’s Anthrax Island
2019x22
The Darien Venture: The Colony that Bankrupted Scotland
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14, 2019
If a Nation’s wealth and power were to be measured in stubbornness, resilience, and inventiveness, rather than GDP, Scotland would be a top-5 Superpower. The people that brought to you .. show full overview
2019x23
The Suez Canal: Foundation, Crisis and Beyond
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19, 2019
​Technically speaking, the Suez Canal is the artificial waterway running north to south across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The Canal .. show full overview
2019x24
The Korean DMZ: The World’s Most Dangerous Border by Morris M.
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21, 2019
MAJOR CORRECTION: AUTHOR IS M. MORRIS. We listed Arnaldo by mistake. Our personal apology to Morris
2019x25
Castle Itter: Where America and Germany Fought Side by Side in WWII
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26, 2019
Castle Itter: Where America and Germany Fought Side by Side in WWII
2019x26
The Orient Express: King of Trains, Train of Kings
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26, 2019
The journey to the Express was not a simple one. For upper class travellers to enjoy a luxury, non-stop train ride across seven nations, it would take the dream of a lovesick Belgian .. show full overview
2019x27
The Panama Canal: The Greatest Engineering Feat in History
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10, 2019
The Panama Canal
2019x28
Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Nerve Gas Lab
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13, 2019
Porton Down: Britain’s Secret Nerve Gas Lab
2019x29
Fiume City State: Free Love, Drugs and Proto Fascism
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20, 2019
Fiume City State: Free Love, Drugs and Proto Fascism
2019x30
Rovaniemi: The Home of Father Christmas
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24, 2019
Rovaniemi is the capital of Lapland, in Northern Finland, and it is placed just a smidge over the line of the Arctic Polar Circle. Unsurprisingly, the climate is positively freezing .. show full overview