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Gaspare Tagliacozzi's *De Curtorum Chirurgia per Insitionem* (1597) described the first systematic European reconstructive surgical technique for nose loss — using a substantial skin flap rotated from the patient's upper arm. The technique required the patient to keep the arm strapped to the face for several weeks while the graft established blood supply.
Read the story →Tycho Brahe wore a metal prosthetic nose for the entire adult portion of his life after losing the original to a student duel in 1566. The Renaissance prosthetics tradition that produced his nose was a substantial European craft specialism that survived from the 15th to the 19th century before being substantively replaced by 20th-century plastic surgery.
Read the story →Lake Cheko sits about 8 kilometres northwest of the [Tunguska blast](/articles/tunguska-event-1908) epicentre. It is small, oval, unusually deep, and has no documented existence before 1929. An Italian-Russian team has spent twenty years arguing that a fragment of the 1908 impactor punched it. Most other researchers disagree.
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