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Cheese cellar

Can Extinct Cheese Varieties Be Revived?

Where science, history and cheesemaking converge

Stonehenge structure in Wiltshire, England

Scientists Discover Where Stonehenge's Boulders Came From

Aged whisky and other items

Shipwrecked 80-Year-Old Scotch Readied for Auction

Pyramids

Pyramids/Alien Theory Gets Elon Musk an Invitation to Egypt

Spanish Flu, CA, 1918

In 1918, the Spanish Flu Had Its Own Memes

Lupine flowers on the former Adler Ranch site in Big Sur

Esselen Tribe Regains Ancestral Land in Big Sur After 250 Years

Varosha

Locked Down Since 1974, A Mediterranean Resort Town Might Be Re-Opening

The New Wheeler 38, a Recreation of Ernest Hemingway's boat Pilar from the Wheeler Yacht Company

Hemingway's Boat Pilar Is Back From the Dead, and You Can Buy One

Tom of Finland was an artist

Tom of Finland's Legacy Continues a Century After His Birth

The Environmental Organization John Muir Founded Is Coming to Grips With His Racism

The Environmental Organization John Muir Founded Is Coming to Grips With His Racism

Dag Hammarskjold Crash

Revisiting the Mysterious Cold War Death of Dag Hammarskjöld

President Obama Honors Medal Of Freedom Recipients

John Lewis, Civil Rights Leader and Congressman, Dead at 80

Notre-Dame

Architecture & Real Estate

Plans Announced for Rebuilding of Notre-Dame Spire

U.S. Confederate Descendants Throw Annual Festival In Brazil Celebrating U.S. Roots

Confederacy Has Unexpected Legacy in Brazil

Wayne, Estrabeau, & Peattie In 'Donovan's Reef'

Protests Prompt Removal of John Wayne Exhibit at USC

Oprah Winfrey attends the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony

Oprah to Bring New York Times' "1619 Project" to Film and TV

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Oxford University

Academic Faces Questions Surrounding Contentious Biblical Fragments

Paul Jennings

How One Man Preserved History During the War of 1812

4th block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Chernobyl Documents Declassified by Ukrainian Government

Antarctic Snow Cruiser

Revisiting the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, 1939's Most Ambitious Ride

Woodrow Wilson

Princeton Will Rename Woodrow Wilson-Associated Schools

Field of the Cloth of Gold

When Two Kings Threw the Most Epic Party of 1520

Theodore Roosevelt statue

Museum of Natural History Announces Removal of Theodore Roosevelt Statue

juneteenth

This Is How Companies in America Are Honoring Juneteenth

Errol Musk, Elon Musk's father and South African engineer

Get to Know Errol Musk, Elon's “Brilliant,” “Terrible” Father

O.J. Simpson white Ford Bronco police chase

The New Ford Bronco Will Debut on O.J. Simpson’s Birthday

Penny Lane sign in Liverpool, England

Liverpool’s Iconic Penny Lane Could Be Facing a Name Change

Indro Montanelli Statue Damaged

Milan's Mayor Won't Take Down Statue of Controversial Writer

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