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Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII
The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...
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On This Day in 1831, Charles Darwin Embarked on a Journey That Led to His Groundbreaking Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...
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A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs
Daniel Bachman is on a mission to evoke Virginia’s past through strange medleys of sounds Brendan Fitzgerald Daniel Bachman ...
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At the Smithsonian’s National Design Museum, a Home Is What You Make of It
In a new exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, artists explore just what makes a space feel like home ...
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Erik Trinidad
Erik Trinidad is an award-winning freelance travel and food lifestyle journalist and video creator. He has written for AFAR, ...
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Why Do Some People Thrive on So Little Sleep?
Like mice, people who are naturally short sleepers seem to be immune to the ill effects of sleep deprivation. If anything, ...
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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous ...
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Beatlemania Took the United States by Storm on This Day in 1963, Launching the British Invasion
With their arrival in America, the Beatles ushered in a new era of hyper-popular rock ’n’ roll music On December 26, 1963, ...
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Get a Colorful Sneak Peek of Notre-Dame’s New Stained Glass Designs
Nearly a year after the controversial plans to replace six original windows were first announced, the French government ...
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Can a New DNA Database Help Save This Incredible Sea Turtle?
The shells of the hawksbill sea turtle have been used for luxury items for centuries, but with the species now endangered, ...
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The Real Story Behind ‘A Complete Unknown’ and Bob Dylan’s Early Career, From His Arrival in New York City to When He ‘Went Electric’
A new film starring Timothée Chalamet tracks Dylan's evolution from an acoustic folk singer to a rock 'n' roll superstar ...
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Humans Fed Salmon to Canines 12,000 Years Ago, Study Suggests, Hinting at the Origin of Our Relationship With Dogs
New research indicates early humans and canines were interacting in the Americas 2,000 years earlier than previously thought Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent François Lanoë, an archaeologist at ...