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There's Only One State Where You Can Marry Without God as a Witness
A Quaker wedding in Philadelphia, 1947. (Photo: Leonard Mccombe/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)Ryan Boswell was running out of time. He and his fiance, Briana, who grew up in the western...
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Pops in Arcadia, Oklahoma
On the road? Thirsty, but not sure for what? Feel like deciding based on color? Then Pops is the place is the place for you! And you won't have any trouble finding it, thanks to the giant, neon statue...
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Liver of Piacenza in Piacenza, Italy
The Palazzo Farnese is a 16th century palace-turned-museum in the northern Italian city of Piacenza. Inside is something 1,600 years older than the palace itself: a bronze model of a sheep’s liver...
View ArticleBad Sniffer Dogs at Airport Keep Finding Only Cheese and Sausages
Search dogs at @manairport are sniffing out 'cheese and sausages' not drugs and illegal products, says Borders Chiefhttps://t.co/UmqdNEYrAY— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) April 14, 2016Six sniffer dogs...
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Hoover-Mason Trestle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
At its height, Bethlehem Steel was the second-largest steel producer in the United States. Employing tens of thousands of people, the company’s massive steel works on the banks of the Lehigh River...
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The Czech Republic Is Changing Its English Name
Straka Academy, the seat of the Czech government. (Photo: Packa/CC BY-SA 3.0)The Czech Republic is expected to change its English name to one-word: Czechia, part simplification, part marketing move for...
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How the NSA's CryptoKids Stole My FOIA Innocence
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.Generally speaking, like most people in the FOIA community, my interest in public records stems from a desire to know what and why my...
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Shark Ray Alley in Ambergris Caye, Belize
There is a lovely little spot in the Hol Chan Marine Reserve where the weather is warm, the waters are crystal clear, and the diving and snorkeling is unparalleled. That is, if you don't mind getting...
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The Coignet Stone Company Building in Brooklyn, New York
Tucked away near the toxically polluted Gowanus Canal, this long-abandoned city landmark is the oldest known concrete structure in New York, but even if it is empty and unloved, it continues to stand...
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The Queen Theater in Honolulu, Hawaii
The Queen Theater sits stately and abandoned in the middle of Honolulu's Kaimuki neighborhood. Having served as everything from a family movie palace to a XXX theater to a plumbing warehouse, it now...
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Inside Laredo, the Secret, Members-Only Wild West Town in England
Laredo, England's only Wild West town. (Photo: Courtesy Laredo Western Club)It started with a cabin. A small, wood cabin with a pot-bellied stove and enough room for a few friends to have a drink after...
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Do You Have The Guts To Watch VR Surgery?
Scrubbing in... virtually. (Image: Medical Realities)Yesterday morning I woke up, sat on my couch, set a $15 Google Cardboard on my nose—and "stood," for two hours, in a London operating room, as a...
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The Man Who Got Hillary Clinton To Care About UFOs
A purported UFO. (Image: Public domain)John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president, is one of the most powerful people in the American political establishment today. He's...
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On the Scene: Plunging into Snow at the Foot of a Volcano
(Photo: Elena Chernyshova)By now, photographer Elena Chernyshova is used to shooting in cold climates. She spent 10 days at the Kupol Gold Mine in Siberia, which is accessible in winter only via an ice...
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Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry in St. Petersburg, Russia
Located just behind Saint Isaac's Cathedral, in the heart of St. Petersburg, is a place teeming with the potential to feed the planet. Founded in 1921, the Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry...
View ArticleCat Rescued After 4 Days Stuck On Insanely Tall Pole
Last weekend, a cat climbed up a pole in Princeton, British Columbia and couldn't get down.Then things got weird. What started as a classic cat scenario stretched into a days-long saga that involved...
View ArticleCatapult Into the Weekend Like this GoPro off an Aircraft Carrier
When the slow dreariness of long Friday afternoon sets in, a pick-me-up is just what is needed to get the weekend finally started. In place of a coffee (or for those more zealous, a beer) comes this...
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Leonardo da Vinci's Living Descendants Have Been Found
An engraving of da Vinci by Everard Hansen. (Photo: Svenska Familj-Journalen/Public Domain)Historians claimed this week to have found the living descendants of Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci,...
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Bokod Floating Houses in Oroszlány, Hungary
The neighboring towns of Bokod and Oroszlány, about 50 miles west of Budapest, have more than two linear miles of cabins and cottages suspended on stilts over Lake Bokodi. The little houses are mostly...
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Trippy Blacklight Posters From the Psychedelic Heyday
Yes, that poster is actually emitting light. (Photo: Caren Anderson/Velveteria/Used with Permission)For a magical time in the 1960s and '70s, your wood-paneled basement hideaway wasn’t worth its weight...
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