A photograph of Paris' Le Meurice hotel in Rue de Rivoli flanked by the flags of Nazi Germany.

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The bizarre true story behind the “this is a work of fiction” disclaimer.

What the Mesopotamians had for dinner

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Paul Cooper: “When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.” — Bluesky

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