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Was Columbus Struck by Lightning?
Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas 516 years ago this month. For five weeks in 1492, the mainmast of his Santa María was the tallest point on the Atlantic Ocean. Weren't the wooden ships of...
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A bolt of lightning struck a ship siphoning oil from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday morning, and shut down the operation for five hours. In 2008, Michael Shollar explained that these sorts...
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