Fort Cronkhite: A WWII Army Base Turned Coastal Playground in the Marin Headlands
Fort Cronkhite in the Marin Headlands: a preserved WWII army base with pebble beaches, coastal trails, a Nike...
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One of the World's Last Real Pirate Flags Hangs in Portsmouth
A genuine 18th-century Jolly Roger, captured in 1790, is on display at Portsmouth's National Museum of the Roy...
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Eight BC ghost towns worth a spooky-season road trip, from underwater Waldo to empty Kitsault
From Waldo submerged under Lake Koocanusa to Kitsault's manicured streets, eight BC ghost towns to explore thi...
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Southwick House: The Quiet Hampshire Manor Where D-Day Was Directed
Southwick House in Hampshire was Eisenhower's D-Day headquarters, with the original invasion maps still on dis...
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From Kaldi's Goats to Istanbul's Coffeehouses: How Coffee Conquered the World
How a goat herder in Ethiopia, Sufi monks in Yemen and Ottoman Istanbul created the world's coffee culture — a...
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Fifty years after Argentina's coup, the man behind the 'Nuremberg Trial' says the country still has a lesson for the world
Fifty years after Argentina's 1976 coup, Trial of the Juntas prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo reflects on justice...
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Camp Butner Museum: The North Carolina Wartime City That Vanished Into the Woods
Camp Butner Museum in North Carolina tells the story of a WWII training camp of 40,000 acres, 250,000 troops a...
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Dolphin's Nose Lighthouse: The ₹10 View That Explains Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam's Dolphin's Nose Lighthouse offers harbour views, a 1957 tower, and 1804 battle history — open 3...
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When Quito Thought the Martians Had Landed: The Deadly 1949 War of the Worlds Broadcast
The 1949 Radio Quito War of the Worlds broadcast fooled all of Quito — and ended in a deadly fire. The alien h...
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Singapore History Gallery reopens with a 1978 HDB lift, Zouk's old signboard and a rickshaw you can pull
The revamped Singapore History Gallery reopens with a real 1978 HDB lift, Zouk's original signboard, a pullabl...
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Singapore's Darkest Wikipedia Rabbit Holes: Ferry Hijackings, Cryptids and a Haunted Shrine
Singapore's creepiest Wikipedia rabbit holes: the 1978 social escorts disappearance, Bukit Timah Monkey Man, L...
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Alajuela's Juan Santamaría Museum: Free History, Art and National Legend Under One Roof
Costa Rica's Juan Santamaría Museum in Alajuela: free entry, national hero history, art exhibits and cultural...
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