The Presurfer

Partial solar eclipse shot in Queens, New York, on November 3, 2013.
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image credit Natural History Museum, London
Among quaint fads of the 19th century, like riding bicycles or playing board games, one sticks out like a sore thumb - the Victorian-era obsession with seaweed. Affluent Victorians often spent hours painstakingly collecting, drying, and mounting these...

Explore 13.7 billion years of shared history and consider the big questions about our Universe, our planet, life, and humanity. From the big bang to modern day to where we are going in the future, big history covers it all.
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What caused Tutankhamun's death? It has been the subject of considerable debate. Was he assassinated? Did he die from a disease? Or was his death accidental?
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