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Historians Thought This Rare Renaissance Portrait by One of the First Famous Female Artists Was Lost to History—Until It Surfaced in North Carolina

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Archaeologists Unearth a Reusable School Slate Still Covered in the Scribbles of Victorian Children

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'Golden' From 'Kpop Demon Hunters' Just Won K-Pop's Very First Grammy

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Read Love Letters From Royals and Romantics Across 500 Years of British History

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A New App Can Match Footprints to the Dinosaurs That Made Them

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Megalodons Went Extinct Millions of Years Ago. The Prehistoric Predator Could Become Maryland's Official State Shark

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This Rare Roman Figurine of a Cat With Its Paws Atop a Severed Head Is One of Britain's Newest Treasures

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Here Are 250 Places to Visit to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday. How Many Have You Been To?

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Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant

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A Fossil Trove in China Provides a Rare Window Into a Mass Extinction Event That Happened More Than 500 Million Years Ago

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Here Are 250 Places to Visit to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday. How Many Have You Been To?

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What Are the Best TV Shows About the American Revolution? A Historian Outlines Five of His Favorites

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Small, Stubby-Armed Dinosaurs Have Confounded Paleontologists. Are Answers Finally Within Reach?

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'Rising Star' of a Prominent Yellowstone Wolf Pack Was Illegally Killed, Sparking a Poaching Investigation

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From 'The Karate Kid' to 'Clueless,' These Are the 25 New Additions to the National Film Registry. See the Full List Here

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