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Futility Closet

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Futility Closet

Por Greg Ross
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185-The Man From Formosa

In 1703, London had a strange visitor, a young man who ate raw meat and claimed that he came...

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184-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles -- play along with us as we try to untangle some...

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183-An Everest Mystery

In 1924 two British mountaineers set out to be the first to conquer Mount Everest. But they...

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182-The Compulsive Wanderer

In the 1870s, French gas fitter Albert Dadas started making strange, compulsive trips to...

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181-Operation Gunnerside

  During World War II, the Allies feared that Germany was on the brink of creating an atomic...

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180-An Academic Impostor

Marvin Hewitt never finished high school, but he taught advanced physics, engineering, and...

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179-Two Vanished Young Writers

Everett Ruess and Barbara Newhall Follett were both born in March 1914 at opposite ends of the...

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178-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles to test your wits and stump your friends -- play...

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177-Averting a Catastrophe in Manhattan

New York's Citicorp Tower was an architectural sensation when it opened in 1977. But then...

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176-The Bear That Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

In 1914, Canadian Army veterinarian Harry Colebourn was traveling to the Western Front when he...

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175-The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island

In 1835, a Native American woman was somehow left behind when her dwindling island tribe was...

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174-Cracking the Nazi Code

In 1940, Germany was sending vital telegrams through neutral Sweden using a sophisticated...

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173-The Worst Journey in the World

In 1911, three British explorers made a perilous 70-mile journey in the dead of the Antarctic...

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172-An American in Feudal Japan

In 1848, five years before Japan opened its closed society to the West, a lone American in a...

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171-The Emperor of the United States

In the 1860s, San Francisco's most popular tourist attraction was not a place but a person:...

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170-The Mechanical Turk

In 1770, Hungarian engineer Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled a miracle: a mechanical man who...

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169-John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude

Ships need a reliable way to know their exact location at sea -- and for centuries, the lack...

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168-The Destruction of the Doves Type

In March 1913, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson threw the most beautiful typeface in the world...

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167-A Manhattan Murder Mystery

In May 1920, whist expert Joseph Bowne Elwell was found shot to death alone in his locked...

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166-A Dangerous Voyage

After Japan invaded the Philippines in 1941 two American servicemen hatched a desperate plan...

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