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Matsuo Basho Sold His Hut and Walked 2,400 Kilometers to Turn a Comic Game Into Art

11h ago

Cleopatra Ruled Egypt for 22 Years. Rome Erased the Ruler and Kept the Seductress.

1d ago

Nelson Mandela: The Prisoner Who Negotiated Apartheid's End in Secret, Without His Own Movement's Permission

2d ago

Alan Turing: The 1936 Idea at the Heart of Every Computer, and the 1952 Conviction That Broke Its Author

3d ago

Joan of Arc: The Trick Question Her Judges Never Should Have Asked

4d ago