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Most famous pieces of stolen art are stolen because they’re famous. But a 1949 painting by the Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí is famous because it was stolen.
Anti-semitism motivated top colleges to switch from entrance exams to more subjective—and more opaque—admissions criteria. By Dan Lewis
It never tastes quite as good as homemade. Dan Lewis blames the carrots.
Dan Lewis explores the deep, dark world… of presidential barbering.
In 1945 the US, China, and Great Britain asked Japan to either surrender or experience "prompt and utter destruction." A group of 1,000 Japanese military members were unwilling to accept either option. By Dan Lewis
World War II pennies were made mostly of steel. Dan Lewis on the rare and oft-faked coppers that made it out of the mint.
Dan Lewis on a gambling institution as elusive as it is downmarket. It's all to do with licensing, naturally.
That feeling of having your butt grabbed by a ghost isn't an isolated stigma. Everyone is getting ghost-fondled.
They go to Alabama, writes intrepid and daring sock smuggler Dan Lewis.
Unknown to most of the world until the late '80s, Witold Pilecki was a leader of the Secret Polish Army. Dan Lewis on an all-round badass.
"You realize now when you work for Disney why the mouse has only four fingers — because he can’t pick up a check." — Robin Williams. Dan Lewis writes about how Disney went back on its word to Williams on Aladdin.
In 2009 a Philadelphia high school remotely spied on students through laptop webcams, wrongfully accusing one teenager of taking drugs. 50,000 photos later, the hammer finally came down on the peeping administrators. Dan Lewis reports.
