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Hagia Sophia is consecrated as a Greek Orthodox Church in modern-day Istanbul, Turkey. Commissioned by Emperor Justinian in 532 C.E. after the previous church on the site was destroyed, the iconic ...

On the day after Christmas in 1996, police in Boulder, Colorado received an alarming 911 call about a missing six-year-old girl named JonBenét Ramsey. “We have a kidnapping,” her mother, Patsy, cried.