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Only Russian Orthodox and Slavic boys are welcome at Novosherkassk's Kadetsky Korpus, an academic school with strong Cossack history, strategy and theology studies.

Eastern State Penitentiary was built in Philadelphia in 1823 as a model for prison reform. It turned out to be a dreadful mistake, but bank robber Willie Sutton and gangster Al Capone calle dit home.

hyperactivity, once seen as a childhood nuisance, can be a devastating life-long condition.

Two hundred years ago Philadelphians began dying by the thousands for reasons nobody understood. Mosquitoes carried the deadly yellow fever virus.

Photographer's interpretation illustrating TIME's cover story 'Is Freud Dead?'

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Teaching an old fish new tricks, Food makers reckon that chili peppers will make tuna a hot product again.

Wearing a sequined gown, a glamourous lady enjoys the view over Manhattan at night.

Enjoying the life of Riley, these polar bears along Canada's Hudson Bay can spring into action if threatened.

Giant carpet sea anemones in the Red Sea uses its tentacles to stun its prey.