Momentous or Merely Memorable
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The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home—seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War—went on for decades
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A long-lost painting of the Senate's Great Compromiser finds a fitting new home in the halls of the U.S. Capitol
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Though it began as a simple hunting lodge, this chateau grew to six times the size of others in the Loire
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Novelist Tim O'Brien revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown
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As demand for its antiquities soars, the West African country is losing its most prized artifacts to illegal sellers and smugglers
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A land of silvery light and astonishing peaks, the country's largest state perpetuates the belief that anything is possible
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The Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was the first to find this cluster of stars in 1751 while on an astronomical expedition to the Cape of Good Hope
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Let the Smithsonian collection be your muse
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Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
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The little burger shack opened by Harry and Esther Snyder in 1948 has grown steadily ever since
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