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Featured story · 1932
Australia vs. the emus: a war nobody won
Machine guns, feathers, and a military operation that sounds invented. Louis investigates the Great Emu War.
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The woman who built a clockwork duck
In 1739, a French inventor unveiled a mechanical bird that could eat, flap, and make everyone deeply uncomfortable.
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When a town put a fish on trial
A very serious courtroom. A very slippery defendant. The medieval world had a way with civic drama.
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The pocket-sized emergency moustache
A Victorian solution in search of a problem, and a tiny grooming kit that really did exist.
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The postcard that crossed an ocean for a penny
Before group chats, a small rectangle of card carried jokes, news, and tiny glimpses of ordinary lives.
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