An interactive map of Afghanistan, Project Athena is an archive to which veterans can upload photos, chronicling the war as they lived it.

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From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian museum has seen some ...

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In just one minute, the map of World War I reveals a conflict that engulfed the globe. From the assassination in Sarajevo to the trenches of France, the Eastern Front, and the collapse of empires, it ...

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