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Galileo's body parts found after vanishing a century ago
Seeded on Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:29 AM EST (the Mail online)
An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the famous renaissance astronomer Galileo that had been missing for more than a century.
France finds lost spy file on young Hitler
Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:41 AM EST (thelocal.de)
Secret French intelligence service documents on the young Adolf Hitler have surfaced in the country's national archives, daily Le Monde reported on Friday.
Collection of FDR papers soon to become public
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:39 PM EST (RealClearPolitics)
The last great archives of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency may soon be available to researchers and the public — 14 boxes of handwritten notes, gifts and correspondence, including a letter from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini congratulating him on his 1933 inauguration.
Women banned from wearing trousers in Paris
Seeded on Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:08 AM EST (Telegraph)
A decree banning women from wearing trousers in Paris is still technically in force, it emerged on Monday, making the laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than hardline Sudan in the fashion stakes.
Lost WWII Japanese Subs Found off Hawaii
Seeded on Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:48 PM EST (CBS News)
Two captured Japanese submarines scuttled by the U.S. Navy just after World War II have been discovered in the Pacific Ocean south of Pearl Harbor.
Mona Lisa 'had eyebrows'
Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:07 PM EST (Telegraph)
The Mona Lisa originally had eyebrows, according to a French art expert who has analysed Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece with a special camera.
Navajo 'code talkers' honored on Veterans Day
Seeded on Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:07 PM EST (Christian Science Monitor)
It was the one code the Japanese couldn't crack. Based on the Navajo language, the code helped the US communicate clandestinely during World War II – and ultimately contributed to victory in the Pacific theater.
Stealth Travel In The USSR: The East German Adventurers Who 'Escaped' The Other Way
Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 1:05 PM EST (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
Many East Germans dreamt of Disneyland and shopping in London. But an adventurous few went in the other direction, with the aim of climbing the highest peaks and rafting the wildest rivers in the Eastern Bloc.
Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall
Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 7:14 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
We make fun of Nostradamus and numerologists, but give editors an anniversary and the floodgates open. We're anniversary-ologists, as USA Today might say.
Inside Leonardo's Notebook
Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 8:45 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)
World-famous as a capital of fashion and design, Italy's second city has a more modest reputation for cultural heritage. Here in the country's business and financial center, local pride focuses on contemporary success rather than past glory.
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