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Look at the two photographs side by side. 1861 Abraham Lincoln arrives in Washington for his first inauguration. The face is long, angular, and unmistakably …

In the entire recorded history of medicine, only one human being has ever been officially classified as both a dwarf and a giant during his …

West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana – October 1844 The auction block that day was almost empty. Rain had turned the yard to red mud, and most …

British Guiana, 1871. In a small village near Georgetown, a boy was born with no arms and no legs (only a head, torso, and a …

Detroit, 1987. Crack was eating the city alive. Drive-by shootings were so common that mothers kept their kids on the floor at night. The police …

Da Nang, Vietnam – late 1976. The influenza arrived without warning, sweeping through the city’s overcrowded nursing homes like fire through dry grass. It was …

Imagine this: it’s the summer of 1930, and somewhere above the flat Midwestern horizon, a little orange monoplane named Stinson Detroiter called City of Chicago …

It started like any other sick day. Twelve-year-old Emily Carter was curled up on the couch in her quiet house outside a small town in …

  What you see in these pictures is a creature straight out of a science fiction nightmare—but it’s very real. Meet Cymothoa exigua, commonly known …