New research pushes the earliest known origins of dice, gambling and the exploration of randomness back six millennia and into North America.

2nd-century BC Greek transgender man

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Hokusai screen prints of "ephemeral" pleasures are widely recognized far beyond Japan for their compositions and use of perspective.

thought experiment about the impossibility of proving any truth: in response to repeated "but why?"s, only the circular argument, infinite regress, or axiomatic argument are possible

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Historical ceremonial execution of Thai royalty

Agatha Christie, the famous author and creator of Hercule Poirot, disappeared suddenly in 1926. Found 11 days later in a hotel, she claimed amnesia and never revealed what had happened.

Dating from 1785, Edward Mooney House at 18 Bowery, at the corner of Pell Street in Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown, is one of New York’s oldest surviving brick

The men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24 miles 1500 yards (40 km).[1]

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Tate Etc. issue 24 Helen Little on Picasso’s Guernica

The Ocean is unbelievably large and hard to navigate, but are we any nearer to understanding it?

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin,[1] featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. It was released in July 1978 by RSO Records as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which starred…

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Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki, billed as The War of the Worlds,[1] was a fight between American professional boxer Muhammad Ali and Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, held at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo, Japan, on June 26, 1976. At the time…