The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...

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The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

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When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who ...

After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...

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