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How was the first bank thief in US history arrested?
In the late summer of 1798, when the deadly yellow fever swept across Philadelphia, the people left the city but left but there were individuals forced to stay here.
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Answer the mystery about the ship at the foot of the New York Twin Towers
The large ship buried under the rubble was closed during the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.
1001 mystery
The inexplicable mystery
How was the Pyramid built? How should the aliens in Roswell be understood? What happens after we die? Those are the unknowns that mankind has never found an answer to. W…
1001 mystery
The strange death of Irish immigrants
In 1832, a group of Irish immigrants was tasked with building a railway section near the state of Philadelphia, USA. However, the work has just started to be done in a f…
Environment
Philadelphia is the most toxic city in the United States
According to a research report on drinking water and air quality in urban areas published on March 1 on forbes.com, Philadelphia, Bakersfield and Fresno are the most tox…
Medicine - Health
Unexpected benefits of coffee and how to drink
Scientists from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have discovered that coffee nourishes the body's cells with oxygen and helps them recover.
Medicine - Health
New drugs treat leukemia rarely in humans
The drug, called Bosulif, produced by Pfizer Inc, is used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a blood and bone marrow cancer that often affects older people.
Medicine - Health
Music reduces anxiety in cancer patients
The group of researchers from the Department of Creative Art Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA) said music could reduce anxiety in cancer patients.
Computer science
Software guesses the killer
Police in three cities, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington DC, USA are putting into use pilot software to predict crime, before it actually takes place.