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On This Day in 1890, the U.S. Army Killed Nearly 300 Lakota People in the Wounded Knee Massacre
The mass murder made sensational news at the time, but getting to the heart of the matter took a much deeper view of American ...
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Edited by Meilan Solly
The magazine's most-read articles of the year included a close-up look at the adorable yet venomous pygmy slow loris, a ...
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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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How an Experiment to Amplify Light in Hospital Operating Rooms Led to the Accidental Invention of the Snow Globe
The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for ...
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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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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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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
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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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This Once-Rare Lizard Bounced Back From the Brink of Extinction After ‘Painstaking’ Restoration Efforts in the Caribbean
In 2018, fewer than 100 Sombrero ground lizards remained on Sombrero Island—but now, more than 1,600 of the critically endangered reptiles are scampering around the limestone landscape Sarah ...
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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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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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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 ...