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by Carl Lipo Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, remote island in the Pacific features nearly 1,000 enormous statues – the moai. The magnitude and number of these monuments defy easy explanation. Since European ships first encountered these stone giants in the 18th century, outsiders have branded the island as fundamentally mysterious, possibly beyond archaeologists’ ability to explain. This characteristic is part of what makes the island famous. Tour operators market the inexplicable. Documentaries promise unsolved puzzles. Popular books ask how “primitive people” could possibly move…

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Nearly 300 years after the last execution, Scotland has created an official tartan to memorialize the thousands of people -- overwhelmingly women -- who were persecuted and executed under the Scottish Witchcraft Act between 1563 and 1736. Created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign, the tartan serves as a "living memorial" to honor victims who were falsely accused of conspiring with the devil during Scotland's witch hunts. The design emerged after the duo struggled to find a suitable location and funding for a physical monument, eventually finding inspiration at a tartan exhibition that sparked the idea of creating a wearabl…

VICEScientists Finally Solved the Weird Mystery of the Boomin...For centuries, something beneath Seneca Lake in upstate New York has been making a very loud, very disturbing noise. Locals called it the “Seneca Guns,” a cannon-like boom that erupted without warning

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