Jack-o’-Lanterns originate from Ireland and a legend about a mean man named Stingy Jack who’s restless soul wandered the countryside with a lantern.
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Kinbane Castle (b.1547) is a reminder of Northern Ireland’s turbulent history and time when the powerful Scottish MacDonnell clan ruled the Glens of Antrim.
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The Mount St. Helens eruption of May 18, 1980, was the most catastrophic eruption in the history of the United States. These photos and video show us why.
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New research and satellite imagery may have found the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the ancient Assyrian city of Ninevah.
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Unexplained Mysteries
Hundreds of Skeletons at Roopkund Lake of the Himalayas
by Kimberly Linby Kimberly LinScience is now beginning to tell us who and why hundreds of Roopkund Lake skeletons lay scattered in the Himalayas.