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How did Fridays and number 13 become the power couple of doom?
Bucks County Courier Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIt’s a day associated with misfortune, superstition and a movie franchise featuring a serial killer...
Tree study shows how drought may have doomed ancient Hittite empire
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAround 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing setback with the near-simultaneous demise...
12 lost cities around the world that have been rediscovered
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 3 months agoLost cities Radchuk O. S./Shutterstock Founded, flourished and eventually forgotten – this has been...
Faith: Why do we give gifts at Christmas time? A history lesson
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoOne baby’s birth slammed us from BC to AD started wars and skirmishes sired scholars and skeptics...
Drunk astronomers, monsters and red underwear: New book explores the myth and folklore of eclipses
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAn ancient Chinese story tells of two court astronomers, Hsi and Ho, who got drunk and failed to...
Blue Jays Roundup: Blue Jays fall in WDA championship match
The Jamestown Sun, N.D. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNov. 13—DICKINSON — Makenna Nold did everything she could to get the Blue Jays a win on Saturday — Century was just a little too much to handle. Century outlasted the Blue Jays 3-2 to earn its ...
25 of the World's Oldest Cities That You Can Still Visit
Cheapism via AOL· 4 weeks agoRoop_Dey/istockphoto Urban Legends With some 10,000 cities around the world to explore, there are...
William Noel, medieval manuscript expert who led the deciphering of lost works by Archimedes –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWilliam Noel, who has died aged 58 from injuries sustained during a traffic accident, was an eminent...
The 13 best things to do in Corfu
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThere’s more to Corfu than its comely beaches. Dig deeper and you will uncover many centuries of history in and around the cobblestoned old town capital,...
The world's oldest landmarks still attracting the crowds today
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAncient attractions Sorin Colac/Alamy Stunning architecture, feats of incredible engineering and...