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# Antarctic
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Unearthing Antarctic Secrets: Shackleton’s Ill-Fated Expedition Revealed Shocking Discoveries
Ernest Shackleton knew the South Pole holds the world's greatest mysteries. It is a desolate, forbiddingly cold place without natural features that would make it habitable. The modern science stations in Antarctica find…
American History
25 Bizarre Historical Facts They Don’t Teach in School
Classroom history can excite and inspire- or it can be a dry affair consisting of a reel of names, dates,…
General
The First Man to Reach the North and South Poles Mysteriously Disappeared
Few men in recent times have displayed the obsessive desire for exploration more clearly than Roald Amundsen. The intrepid Norwegian…
General
37 Photographs Documenting the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration began at the end of the 1800s when Antarctica became the focus of international…
Cold War
This Day In History: The Antarctic Is Declared A Military-Free Territory (1961)
On this day in history a dozen nations come together and sign the Antarctic Treaty. This is a unique treaty…