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How the Eiffel Tower Was Built: The Marvel of 1889
In the winter of 1887, Parisian journalists gathered at a curious construction site on the Champ de Mars. There, amid wooden scaffolding and the rhythmic clang of hammers, they witnessed what one reporter would describe as men "reaping lightning bolts in the clouds."
Emmanuel Nwude: The Man Behind the $242 Million Nigerian Airport Scam
In the late 1990s, a brazen fraudster named Emmanuel Nwude pulled off one of history's most outrageous cons - selling a fictional airport to a gullible Brazilian bank director for a whopping $242 million.
The Burning of the Library of Alexandria: Myths and History
For centuries, the phrase "burning of the Library of Alexandria" has conjured an image of mankind's greatest collection of knowledge going up in flames. It's become a metaphor for the triumph of ignorance over learning, a cautionary tale passed down through generations.
HAL 9000: This Lens is Cinema’s Most Memorable AI Villain
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey gave the world one of cinema's most chilling villains - the malevolent AI known as HAL 9000. With his ominous glowing red "eye", HAL has become pop culture iconography for evil artificial intelligence.
Winter Holidays of the Globe
As winter's darkness deepens across the Northern Hemisphere, countless lights begin to twinkle in windows, streets, and homes around the world. It is a time for winter holidays across the globe.
Sentinel Island: The most hostile island in the world
Far out in the Indian Ocean lies North Sentinel Island, home to the Sentinelese, one of the most isolated indigenous tribes on Earth. For millennia, the Sentinelese have resisted contact with the outside world, turning away expeditions and sometimes responding violently to protect their way of life.
