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A British Museum Is Searching for a Rare 1940s Housecoat From a Fashion Brand That Dressed the Queen—and, on Special Occasions, Ordinary Women Too

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The key to colonizing Mars may be hidden inside asteroids

Latest Discoveries

You Won’t Believe How They Made the Cyclops in The Odyssey (Hint: It Involved a 60-Foot Puppet)

A British Museum Is Searching for a Rare 1940s Housecoat From a Fashion Brand That Dressed the Queen—and, on Special Occasions, Ordinary Women Too

Karafuneya Coffee in Kyoto, Japan

Kongo Gumi in Osaka, Japan

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