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Rene Carmille has been called the first ethical hacker for sabotaging the computerization of data about French Jews during World War II.

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The bombing of Dresden, Germany, which began February 13, 1945, was once viewed as a historical footnote. Until Slaughterhouse-Five was published.

Edgar Allan Poe knew that readers would add their visual image of the author to his work to create a personality that informed their reading.

The mystery surrounding the 1911 theft and subsequent conspiracy theory catapulted the Mona Lisa into the popular imagination.

The founders of Women’s Studies were overwhelmingly white, and focused on the experiences of white, heterosexual women.

The deserts of Namibia are dotted with odd circular bare patches, ringed by the dry desert grasses. They're called "fairy circles." It’s a desert whodunit.