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Like this gallery?Share it: The epic nuclear meltdown of 1986 left an area of 1,600 square miles, known as the Chernobyl exclusion zone, totally uninhabitable for people. By some accounts, this area of Ukraine will remain abandoned of people for some 20,000 more years.

Convening the best aspects of photo and video into one pith and movement-filled entity, the GIF is the Internets wunderkind. While arguments have arisen about its pronunciation, everyone can agree that they do a fine job of entertaining and informing an audience whose mobile lifestyles demand that content be quick, to the point and easy

Volker MinkusThe pointy stick was used by early humans, possibly Homo heidelbergensis or Homo neanderthalensis. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a tool maker sat down in present-day Germany with a stick. They stripped the bark, carved the ends into points, seasoned the wood, and sanded it down. Now, archaeologists who found the stick among

In 1887, France created a colonial system in modern-day Vietnam, claiming that it was part of French Indochina. This region also included modern-day Cambodia, and later, modern-day Laos. Colonial rule would endure in the area for over six decades, and during this time, the French used the entire region of Indochina for their own economic

Like this gallery?Share it: In the 19th century, rumors began to spread about the ancient ruins hidden away in the jungles of Mesoamerica and South America. After all, the Maya had built a towering civilization centuries before Europeans made their way to the "New World." But when the civilization collapsed, the jungles reclaimed the Mesoamerican