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London, 1928: a group of mold spores surf a breeze through a lab.
They drift onto a petri dish, and when they land,
they germinate a medical revolution.
This lab belongs to Alexander Fleming, a Sco
In 1165, copies of a strange letter began to circulate throughout Western Europe.
It spoke of a fantastical realm,
containing the Tower of Babel and the Fountain of Youth—
all ruled over by the lett
4,300 years ago in ancient Sumer,
the most powerful person in the city of Ur was banished to wander the vast desert.
Her name was Enheduanna.
She was the high priestess of the moon god and history’s
Flanked by two powerful European nations, the English Channel
has long been one of the world’s most important maritime passages.
Yet for most of its history,
the channel’s rocky shores and stormy we
In the depths of their underwater kingdom,
the mighty Dragon Lords quaked with fear.
Before them pranced Sun Wukong, the Monkey King.
The legendary troublemaker been hatched from a stone, schooled
The evil wizard MoldeVort has been trying to kill you for years,
and today it looks like he’s going to succeed.
But your friends are on their way, and if you can survive until they arrive,
they sho
As Ethic falls, she remembers.
She remembers the world before they unearthed the crystal.
She remembers the glee she felt when she built her first robot.
But mostly she remembers the friends she’s
This is Goliath, the krill.
Don’t get too attached.
Today this 1 centimeter crustacean
will share the same fate as 40 million of his closest friends:
a life sentence in the belly of the largest blue
In 2018, a single power plant produced more energy
than the world’s largest coal-powered and gas-powered plants combined.
And rather than using finite fossil fuels,
this massively powerful plant reli
Throughout six centuries, the Ghent Altarpiece
has been burned, forged, and raided in three different wars.
It is, in fact, the world’s most stolen artwork.
And while it’s told some of its secrets,