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Just a short distance from the famous canals of Venice, Italy, lies an isolated landmass that hides a history of mass death.

In 1964, a young French embassy accountant in Beijing met a fascinating Chinese opera singer at a holiday gathering.

However, deep within the dark confines of an underground prison cell, one man survived the destruction.

In July 2012, an 11-year-old boy named Liam Corcoran managed to travel from the United Kingdom to Italy without a passport, a boarding pass, or any money.

On April 8, 2018, a routine corporate dividend payout transformed into one of the most expensive keyboard errors in financial history.

In the mid-1850s, a police nightwatchman in Edinburgh acquired a small terrier to accompany him on his shifts.

In the spring of 1991, a highly successful CEO stood before thousands of business leaders and delivered a speech that would instantly cause his multi-million-pound company to collapse.

In the spring of 1806, a strange advertisement in a London newspaper invited the public to see a man weighing 700 pounds (317 kilograms) for the price of one shilling.

A fictional FBI agent flashed her badge on television screens in 1993 and subsequently caused a measurable shift in the demographics of real-world scientific laboratories.