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It's a lucrative gig, but it means passing a strenuous process of auditions to find the very best subway musicians
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The Gaia star surveyor captured a densely packed area near the center of the galaxy
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Isaac Royall, Jr., who helped found the school in 1817, was a prosperous slaveholder
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The city destroyed by a 4th-century tsunami is rediscovered
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The same properties that make Zika virus devastating to fetal brains could be turned against cancer cells
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After 25 years and millions of dollars, the coast-to-coast hiking, biking and paddling trail has an official route
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On Sunday, residents living within a mile of the site left their homes while the 4,000-pound "Blockbuster" was defused
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The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
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Between 1697-1698, the tsar visited Europe in disguise to learn about shipbuilding and Western culture. His verdict? Shave
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The singer-songwriter's childhood stamp album offers an insight to his character
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The Best Bird Photographer of the Year Awards displays the dynamic lives of the amazing avian
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‘Free Air’ was a classic of the interwar generation
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Archaeologists tested three methods the early hominins could have used to get tar from birch bark
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The archbishop of Paris has launched a fundraising campaign in the hopes of saving the historic structure
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Researchers have found that the rainfall, sunshine and the threat of frost or overheating set the maximum size for leaves
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Analysis of the TRAPPIST-1 stellar system shows that several of its planets have the right conditions for liquid water
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She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn't go so well
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They say baseball "lost its innocence" after 1919, but betting and other improper behavior was rampant in early-20th-century baseball
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