Secrets and Lies Shroud Origins of Giant Swastika
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The provenance of a man-made forest in the shape of a swastika near the edge of the Himalayas presents a complicated mystery.
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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Navy barracks in Southern California that resemble a swastika from the air is to get a $600,000 make-over after spawning myriad conspiracy theories and concerns by Jewish groups.
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French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris's best-known equestrian statues.
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KASSEL, Germany -- In 1934, top Nazi party official Hermann Goering received a seemingly mundane request from the Reich Forestry Service. A fur farm near here was seeking permission to release a batch of exotic bushy-tailed critters into the wild to "enrich the local fauna" and give bored hunters...
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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Dresden in February 1945, photo: CTK There on the hill - Nazis! A woman with a megaphone sounds the alarm to her fellow anti-fascist demonstrators, as a group of about fifty neo-Nazis - some wielding truncheons ...
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It is illegal to display a swastika in Germany, but one would never know it from walking around the hall housing English-language publishers at the Frankfurt book fair.
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By Richard Orange, The Business, London  Feb. 17--Bugging devices, concealed in pens, buttonholes, or 1960s-style  Formica lamps, are part of the mythology of spycraft.
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Reporter Alexander Gelfand has his likeness immortalized with new 3-D printing technology. Photographs by Ryan Brenizer.
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A German historian on Thursday published a set of top-secret maps of Nazi Germany's arms industry that were seized from Hermann Goering, the chief of Adolf Hitler's air force, at the end of World War II.
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A new documentary thick with tales of spies and secretive submarine landings traces how Nazis smuggled gold and cash from Europe to Argentina, a notorious safe haven for war criminals after World War II.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic  -- Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible - a medieval manuscript said to have been written 800 years ago with the devil's help - has returned to Prague after an absence of 359 years. The priceless piece, considered the biggest medieval book, was taken from the Prague Castle by Swedish troops at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. It is in Prague on loan from Sweden's Royal Library in Stockholm. It was put on display under high security at the Czech National Library.
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A series of encodings on printouts from color laser printers to discourage counterfeiting? At first, the idea sounds like the urban legend from a couple of decades ago that claimed you could hear Satanic messages when you play vinyl records backwards. Yet the evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is that the encodings are embedded in color printers from all major manufacturers. Moreover, the issues raised by the practice have caused Free Software Foundation director Benjamin Mako Hill and other members of the Computing Culture group at the MIT Media Lab to begin the Seeing Yellow campaign to stop the practice.
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Vandals painted swastikas on more than 100 Jewish and Tatar gravestones in a central Russian city and overturned many others &#151; the latest in a string of anti-Semitic, racist and hate crime vandalism across the nation, police officials said Wednesday.
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After seven years of quiet work, about half a million pages of detailed records of the Vienna community during the Holocaust are about to be officially unveiled.
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Turing Bombe replica goes on show Enthusiasts have succeeded in rebuiling a Nazi code cracking device, signaling the culmination of a 10-year project.â¦