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A 400-year-old dress was recovered from a 17th-century shipwreck off the Dutch coast.

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Dutch Divers Found a 17th-Century Dress Buried Under the Sea

The 400-year-old gown was remarkably well-preserved

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Every City Has a Unique Microbial “Fingerprint”

From architecture to microbes, every city is different

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Do Insects Have Consciousness and Ego?

The brains of insects are similar to a structure in human brains, which could show a rudimentary form of consciousness

Basta Ya! (Enough!) was a community bilingual newspaper published in San Francisco, California from 1969 to about 1973.

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Read Almost 150 Years' Worth of Mexican-American Journalism

History is in the headlines at the Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press Collection

What the villa discovered in Wiltshire, England, would have looked like 1800 years ago

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Massive Roman Villa Found in British Backyard

One of the largest and best-preserved Roman homes ever found in Britain was discovered after a family decided they wanted to play ping-pong in their barn

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake decimated entire cities in northern Ecuador.

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Help First Responders in Ecuador Without Leaving Your Desk

Scour satellite imagery of earthquake-stricken areas to help aid agencies decide where to go next

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Watch Earth's Atmosphere Brilliantly Light Up From Space

The glow isn't from an aurora, it's a phenomena called airglow

Organizers hope a new mini golf course will start a conversation about how gentrification affects Los Angeles' poorest residents.

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Los Angeles’ Skid Row Is Getting a Golf Course

It’s a hole-in-one for performers with a point to make about gentrification

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books

By turning down the case, the Supreme Court made a stand for fair use

This silk satin, lace and whalebone corset gave an 1890s lady her hourglass figure and tiny waist.

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A New Exhibition Is All About Underwear

From a queen's drawers to David Beckham's briefs, The Victoria and Albert Museum gets "Undressed"

Six miles to Racetrack, a million miles from civilization—except for the tea.

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Death Valley Has a Secret Shrine to…Tea

Take a kettle, leave a kettle at this remote junction

Some of the shackled skeletons found at Phalaeron outside Athens

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Shackled Skeletons Unearthed in Greece Could Be Remains of Slaughtered Rebels

Three dozen skeletons in shackles may be the followers of Cylon, an Olympic champion who tried to take over Athens in 632 B.C.

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Vaccine Switch Marks a New (and Hopefully Last) Stage in the Battle With Polio

Over the weekend, health officials began replacing the current polio vaccination in an effort to wipe out one of three strains of the virus

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The Northeast Prepares for Swarms of Cicadas This Spring

Billions of red-eyed cicadas will emerge from the earth in much of the northeast this spring, part of a 17-year-cycle

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Your Body Could One Day Be a Computer Display

Forget screen time—a new technology is all about skin time

Boat or floating farm forest? Swale is both.

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New York’s Newest Urban Farm Floats

A barge bursting with vegetables takes to the water this summer

At least the scent of despair comes in a pretty bottle.

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This Perfume Smells Like the Apocalypse

Artists bottled blood and thunder to capture the heady scent of the end times

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Scientists Catalog Creatures in Every Corner of Los Angeles

In a huge citizen science project, scientists are turning to an urban environment to seek out biodiversity

The Grand Entrance Hall to the Thames Tunnel has been restored and reopened to the public.

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Historic Sites of the London Underground Will Soon Open for Visitors

See Churchill’s blitz bunker and the first underwater tunnel ever built

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Historians Identify 35 Descendants of Leonardo da Vinci

Using historical documents and genealogical detective work, researchers have reconstructed 15 generations of Leonardo's family tree

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