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Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked!

As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outings

The Guardian - UK · 9h ago

Mamdani to reportedly skip Manhattan Columbus Day parade, drawing ire from Italian-American community

There is no love lost between Mamdani and the Italian-American community in New York.

We Got This Covered · Oct 12

Ancient Skeletons from 3,500 Years Ago Are Challenging What Scientists Thought About Syphilis and Its Origins

Three children buried in Vietnam show congenital treponemal disease at least 3,500 years ago, complicating how researchers date syphilis in bone

Medical Daily · Aug 13

Netflix just added the funniest zombie survival film — and there are 32 rules you need to follow

Jesse Eisenberg and his zombie survival rules have arrived on Netflix, and "Zombieland" is my favorite comedy-horror movie of all time.

Tom’s Guide · Mar 1

A forgotten explorer, the first Greek who reached Britain 1,500 years before modern travel

History tends to cluster its explorers in the same few centuries, frequently ignoring older figures whose expeditions left fewer evidence. Long before Marco Polo travelled east or Columbus crossed the Atlantic, a Greek adventurer from the Mediterranean is believed to have sailed into portions of Europe that were well outside…

The Times of India · Feb 4

For Trump, there’s Columbus Day and Victory Day, but no World Aids Day

Administration said ‘awareness is not a strategy’, but here is a short list of orders the president has signed to do just that

The Guardian - US · Nov 27, 2025

Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

The Conversation · Jun 27, 2025

25 Of The Biggest Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History

Destroyed centuries of knowledge. Whoopsie.

Bored Panda · May 28, 2025

24 Times History Got Twisted And People Were Convinced To Believe False Facts, As Shared Online

There are many false historical claims that were never backed by any historical evidence, and this Reddit thread lists some of the most famous ones out there.

Bored Panda · May 2, 2025

Name Games: Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Move Flouts History, International Cooperation

The president could just as logically rename the body of water the “Chinese Sea,” one historian argues.

Texas Observer · Jan 24, 2025