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The Battle of Karemeh: The defeat that turbocharged Palestinian confidence
How a costly Israeli raid in 1968 transformed Palestinian morale
The Battle of Hampton Roads: How the American Civil War’s first naval clash transformed combat
Two ironclads fought to a stalemate to make wooden naval ships obsolete
The Vredefort Dome: The scar left by the largest known impact on Earth
A South African farming region preserves the footprint of a 2-billion-year-old catastrophe
Opabinia: The five-eyed hunter that made scientists laugh
The strangest Cambrian creature?
Why modern life breaks our body clocks
Many biological clocks are incompatible with 9 to 5
The Roman Empire’s failed invasion of Yemen: Augustus’s calamity in the desert
Who was to blame for this debacle?
What does biological research tell us about the Shroud of Turin?
Will there ever be definitive proof?
Phantom vibration syndrome: Why do people hear nonexistent notifications?
The psychological impact of near-constant phone use
The Battle of Dybbøl: How Prussia’s guns announced the age of German unification
The siege that shattered Danish power
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest: The longest, most futile battle America has ever fought
A bloody, pyrrhic five-month grind on the German border
The Battle of Hattin: How Saladin destroyed the Crusader Kingdom
The death knell for Christian rule of the Holy Land
The Battle of Wakefield: The strangest engagement of the Wars of the Roses
How Richard of York’s gamble ended in slaughter
The Zeigarnik effect: Why unfinished tasks stay in your mind
How an observation in a Berlin cafe pointed to an invaluable productivity trick
The making of Madrid: How a minor Muslim fortress became Castile’s metropolis
Why did Philip II make this unremarkable town Spain’s capital?
Who wrote Beowulf?
And why?