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Cold as Dickens

Dickensian London is iconic, but its plentiful snowdrifts bear little resemblance to the modern city. Is this artistic license? Or are Tiny Tim’s environs evidence of a centuries-long frosty period that gave us Frankenstein, witchcraft, and America?

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The American Queen of Sikkim

Part two: The 22-year-old New Yorker who became Himalayan royalty. A real riches-to-different-riches story.

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The Last Chogyal of Sikkim

Part one: The lost kingdom of the Himalayas.

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas United States

The Best-known Breasts of the West

This Women’s History Month: Who was Mollie, and why are her nipples all over Utah?

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

Halfdan Was Here

How Viking graffiti made it all the way to a church in Istanbul.

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Geography History

Paris’s Missing Skyline

Acrophobia in the city of lights.

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Animals Geography Grapevine's Atlas

Sea Monkeys

How primates accidentally beat Columbus across the Atlantic by 40 million years.

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History Religion

Europe’s Last Woman-Free Theocracy

Hakuna Matata

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

The Bosnian’s New Pyramids

Historians and archaeologists say the oldest and largest ancient pyramids are in Egypt and Mexico. One Bosnian wizard says they’re wrong.

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Geography Grapevine's Atlas History

Fire Underfoot

Separated by 9,900 miles, two underground blazes still burn after 50 years.