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Futility Closet

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Por Greg Ross
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224-Lady Death

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was training for a career as a history teacher when Germany invaded the...

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223-The Prince of Forgers

Denis Vrain-Lucas was an undistinguished forger until he met gullible collector Michel...

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222-The Year Without a Summer

The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 was a disaster for the Dutch East Indies, but its...

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221-The Mystery Man of Essex County

In 1882, a mysterious man using a false name married and murdered a well-to-do widow in Essex...

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220-The Old Hero of Gettysburg

In 1863, on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, a 69-year-old shoemaker took down his...

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219-The Greenbrier Ghost

In 1897, shortly after Zona Shue was found dead in her West Virginia home, her mother went to...

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218-Lost in the Amazon

In 1769, a Peruvian noblewoman set out with 41 companions to join her husband in French...

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217-The Bone Wars

The end of the Civil War opened a new era of fossil hunting in the American West -- and a...

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216-The Tromelin Island Castaways

In 1761 a French schooner was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean, leaving more than 200 people...

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215-The Lieutenant Nun

In 1607, a 15-year-old girl fled her convent in the Basque country, dressed herself as a man,...

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214-The Poison Squad

In 1902, chemist Harvey Wiley launched a unique experiment to test the safety of food...

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213-Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery

In 1893, Grover Cleveland discovered a cancerous tumor on the roof of his mouth. It was feared...

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212-The Hunt for the Treasure of Lima

Cocos Island, in the eastern Pacific, is rumored to hold buried treasure worth millions of...

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211-Cast Away on an Ice Floe

Germany's polar expedition of 1869 took a dramatic turn when 14 men were shipwrecked on an ice...

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210-Lateral Thinking Puzzles

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

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209-Lost Off Newfoundland

In 1883 fisherman Howard Blackburn was caught in a blizzard off the coast of Newfoundland....

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208-Giving Birth to Rabbits

In 1726 London was rocked by a bizarre sensation: A local peasant woman began giving birth to...

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207-The Bluebelle's Last Voyage

In 1961, Wisconsin optometrist Arthur Duperrault chartered a yacht to take his family on a...

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206-The Sky and the Sea

Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard opened two new worlds in the 20th century. He was the first...

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205-The White Mouse

In 1928 Nancy Wake ran away from her Australian home and into an unlikely destiny: She became...

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