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Humanity has always possessed a knack for mindlessly repeating weird themes in all aspects of life, up to and very much including classic art. The only difference is that their themes were somehow even stranger.
- By Carmen Burana
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- April 28, 2014
Prepare yourself for the most cold-blooded poems you will read in April's National Poetry Month.
- By Brendan McGinley
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- April 26, 2014
We're not saying these people are all liars or that their books should be tossed in the garbage. It's just interesting to see how the human mind works.
- By Cornelius Heyer, Sammy Trujillo, Sam Jackson
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- April 23, 2014
More often than you'd think, circumstances conspire to put the fate of the world into the hands of people you wouldn't trust with a Risk board.
- By Jacopo della Quercia , Alex Hanton, Xavier Jackson, Kyle Stevens
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- April 20, 2014
Almost everything you think about those old wars is completely wrong.
- By J. Wisniewski
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- April 18, 2014
The next time someone gives you crap for doing one of the following, dig out the fuzzy black-and-white photos of their grandfathers doing the same.
- By Raoni Lacerda, Adam Wears, Dyl Moore, Michael Dawson
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- April 17, 2014
Occasionally the government will put forth a plot so insane that even the most hardened Bond villain would ask them if everything is all right at home
- By Alex Hanton, Evan V. Symon
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- April 15, 2014
As awful as war is, it has a way of bonding people. We'd imagine that goes double for these guys, who found themselves having to pretty much fight battles themselves.
- By Xavier Jackson, Jorden Weir
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- April 14, 2014
Some of what you think you know is wrong, some of it is misconstrued, and most of it just left your head completely the minute 8th grade history ended.
- By J. Wisniewski
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- April 09, 2014
We sat down with Katarina Urbanek, who spent her teenage years studying in Slovakia during WWII, where she also enlisted as a member of the Slovak Underground.
- By Evan V. Symon , Katarina Urbanek
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- March 26, 2014
It turns out that a lot of the stuff that defines the modern battlefield has been around in some form for a lot longer than we think, thanks to murderous geniuses who were decades or centuries ahead of their time.
- By Adam Wears, Xavier Jackson, Steve Shapiro
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- March 23, 2014
Censorship commits a greater sin than 'threatening freedom' or 'oppressing thought': It completely alters the story's message.
- By Jason Iannone
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- March 22, 2014
Sometimes the experts get things wrong, giving us a view of the past that more closely resembles the fever dreams of a Muppet designer than actual animals.
- By Teddem Yee
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- March 08, 2014
These folks stared right into the eyes of heavily armed evil and slowly, purposefully, without ever breaking eye contact, raised both middle fingers.
- By Pat Carnell, Eric Yosomono
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- March 07, 2014
How many history-making men have we almost lost to fatal pissing contests? A frightening amount, it turns out.
- By Jacopo della Quercia , Matthew Moffitt
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- March 05, 2014
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