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In 1996 a Hawaiian court handed down a judgment that ballooned with interest to 40.5 billion dollars, awarded for the theft of a treasure most historians insist never existed. Yamashita's gold is a le...

28 Juni 23min

She was the most brilliant mathematician of the ancient world, respected by pagans and Christians alike, and she was murdered by a mob using broken roof tiles and pottery shards. Then, for sixteen cen...

28 Juni 22min

In a single afternoon at Cannae, Rome lost up to 70,000 men and a huge share of its governing Senate to one man who refused to fight by the rules. Hannibal Barca became Rome's ultimate boogeyman, yet ...

28 Juni 24min

Imagine a nation with no standing army and a handful of lightly armed patrol boats picking a fight with the mighty British Royal Navy, and winning three times in a row. That is the bizarre, high-stake...

28 Juni 26min

In November 1963, fishermen off Iceland watched the ocean catch fire as a brand-new island was born from the sea floor. That island, Surtsey, is now one of the most exclusive and tightly guarded place...

28 Juni 21min

Picture an animal that rests its tail in water hot enough to cook your proteins while keeping its head in a cooler current, living happily in a boiling, toxic vat of heavy metals on the deep ocean flo...

28 Juni 21min

At 24, a traumatized survivor who had spent his teens as a hostage to the tyrant who murdered his family was handed the entire Roman Empire, with no checks on his power. His name was Caligula.This epi...

28 Juni 23min

In 1835, readers of a New York newspaper learned that a famous astronomer had discovered unicorns, bipedal beavers, and temple-building bat-winged humanoids living on the moon. Astonishingly, much of ...

28 Juni 19min