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Hall of Fame Examines 150 Years of Black Baseball History
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Hall of Fame Examines 150 Years of Black Baseball History
A new exhibition begins long before the creation of the Negro Leagues and ends with the triumphs and challenges of today's players
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More Than a Century Ago, Flamingos Disappeared From Florida. Now, They're Coming Home
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More Than a Century Ago, Flamingos Disappeared From Florida. Now, They’re Coming Home
Likely transported by Hurricane Idalia last August, more than 100 of the pink birds were counted in a February census in the Sunshine State, where they are considered a native species
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See the Stunning Shrine With Rare Blue-Painted Walls Unearthed at Pompeii
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See the Stunning Shrine With Rare Blue-Painted Walls Unearthed at Pompeii
The 86-square-foot space is adorned with artworks depicting female figures and agricultural imagery
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Man Infected With H5N2 Bird Flu in Mexico Dies. Here's the Latest on the Virus
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Man Infected With H5N2 Bird Flu in Mexico Dies. Here’s the Latest on the Virus
The strain is not the same one that has infected U.S. cows and three dairy farm workers, and officials say the risk to the general public remains low
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Ancient Celtic Elites Inherited Wealth From Their Mothers' Sides
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Ancient Celtic Elites Inherited Wealth From Their Mothers’ Sides
A genetic analysis of opulent burial mounds in Germany sheds new light on how power passed through family lines
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When Did Humans Domesticate Horses? Scientists Find Modern Lineage Has Origins 4,200 Years Ago
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When Did Humans Domesticate Horses? Scientists Find Modern Lineage Has Origins 4,200 Years Ago
A new study suggests people in the Eurasian steppe bred horses around 2200 B.C.E., challenging earlier ideas about the beginnings of horse husbandry
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Two Nazi-Looted Paintings Were Returned to a Jewish Family, Who Donated Them Back to the Louvre
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Two Nazi-Looted Paintings Were Returned to a Jewish Family, Who Donated Them Back to the Louvre
The 17th-century artworks were recovered from Germany and placed at the Paris museum in the 1950s
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The Western U.S. Is Sweltering Under a 'Heat Dome.' What Does That Mean?
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The Western U.S. Is Sweltering Under a ‘Heat Dome.’ What Does That Mean?
A stagnant high-pressure system over the region is trapping heat, exacerbating high temperatures and setting records
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Medieval Game Pieces Unearthed Beneath a Castle in Germany
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Medieval Game Pieces Unearthed Beneath a Castle in Germany
The "excellently preserved" chess knight, six-sided die and several other pieces are all about 1,000 years old
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William Anders, NASA Astronaut Who Captured Iconic 'Earthrise' Photograph, Dies at 90
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William Anders, NASA Astronaut Who Captured Iconic ‘Earthrise’ Photograph, Dies at 90
The Apollo 8 lunar module pilot also served in the U.S. Air Force and worked extensively on nuclear energy projects
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Ancestry Releases Records of 183,000 Enslaved Individuals in America
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Ancestry Releases Records of 183,000 Enslaved Individuals in America
The genealogy company has digitized and published 38,000 newspaper articles from between 1788 and 1867—before Black Americans were counted as citizens in the U.S. census
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Pineapple-Sized Hail Stone Falls in Texas—and It Might Set a New State Record
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Pineapple-Sized Hail Stone Falls in Texas—and It Might Set a New State Record
Veteran storm chaser Val Castor spotted the behemoth ice chunk in a ditch near Vigo Park in the Texas panhandle
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Trove of Rare Artifacts Unearthed Beneath an Ancient Roman Well
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Trove of Rare Artifacts Unearthed Beneath an Ancient Roman Well
Dozens of items, including burnt bones and ceramics, provide new insights into ritual activity in the city of Ostia
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Don't Call Wombats Heroes, but Their Burrows Do Provide Food, Water and Shelter for Other Animals
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Don’t Call Wombats Heroes, but Their Burrows Do Provide Food, Water and Shelter for Other Animals
During Australia’s devastating bushfires in 2019 and 2020, misinformation spread about wombats welcoming animals into their underground homes—but a new study finds a kernel of truth in the viral story
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Mary Cassatt's Paintings Take Women's Labor Seriously
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Mary Cassatt’s Paintings Take Women’s Labor Seriously
A new exhibition challenges longstanding assumptions about the American Impressionist's artistic legacy
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Railbiking Is Catching On Across the Nation—Here's Where to Try It Yourself
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Railbiking Is Catching On Across the Nation—Here’s Where to Try It Yourself
Sit back, relax and pedal your way along historic railroad tracks
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These Dutch Newlyweds Had Their Portraits Painted Nearly 400 Years Ago. But Who Were They?
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These Dutch Newlyweds Had Their Portraits Painted Nearly 400 Years Ago. But Who Were They?
A curator has finally figured out the identity of the couple painted by Frans Hals around 1637
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Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth's Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
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Mars Was Hit With a Solar Storm Days After Earth’s Aurora Light Show, NASA Says
Studying this event could hold lessons for scientists about how to protect astronauts from radiation on future trips to the Red Planet
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A Twice-Looted Titian Masterpiece Once Discovered at a Bus Stop Hits the Auction Block
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A Twice-Looted Titian Masterpiece Once Discovered at a Bus Stop Hits the Auction Block
The painting, "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt," could sell for as much as $30 million
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After Months of Glitches and Gradual Fixes, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Once Again
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After Months of Glitches and Gradual Fixes, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Once Again
Currently 15 billion miles away from Earth, one of NASA’s longest-tenured spacecraft is back from the brink after a technical failure last year put its future in question
2024/10/01 05:41:02
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