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11.02.18

The Real Freddie Mercury

This South Carolina Cabin Is Now a Crown Jewel in the Smithsonian Collections

The Milky Way Ate One of Its Neighbors 10 Billion Years Ago

Let’s Build Cars Out of Batteries

A Human Chain Helped a U.K. Bookshop Move to Its New Location

How a Japanese Island Quietly Disappeared

Toothy Medieval Sea Monster Remains Found in London

Louis Cha, “Master” of Kung-Fu Novels, Has Died at 94

Legacy of Jane Fortune, Champion of Forgotten Women Artists, Lives on in New Initiative

On this day in 1755, Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna, the 15th and final child of Francis I and Habsburg empress Maria Theresa. As a teenager, she was embraced by the French public when she married the future Louis XVI, but a dramatic shift in sentiment would see her sentenced to death by guillotine some two decades later. Read about the exorbitant tastes of Marie Antoinette.

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