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The Eleanor Roosevelt Monument in Riverside Park, New York, was dedicated at 72nd Street on October 5, 1996.

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It's Way Too Hard to Find Statues of Notable Women in the U.S.

Only a handful of the country's sculptures honor women

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Happy Leap Day! Brought to You by Julius Caesar

The leap year has a long history, stretching all the way back to 46 B.C.E.

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Pluto’s North Pole Is Streaked With Canyons

Enormous pits and frozen valleys straddle Pluto’s northern hemisphere

This 1956 poster is just one of thousands of items of Rosa Parks' personal collection now digitized by the Library of Congress.

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Rosa Parks' Papers Are Now Online

Read about everything from her meditations on the Civil Rights Movement to her recipe for "featherlite" peanut butter pancakes

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As Oceans Warm, Little Penguins Are Left Hungry

The world’s smallest penguin is struggling to find fish in warmer waters

The secretly-made 3D scan of Nefertiti's bust.

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Thanks to Sneaky Scanners, Anyone Can 3D Print a Copy of Nefertiti’s Bust

Scans of the famous sculpture are free for the taking

Beijing's CCTV Tower has been compared to a pair of glorious pants.

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These Are 10 of China’s Strangest Buildings

Chinese officials want to ditch the country's bizarre architecture

CSIRO's Compact Array telescope picked the Fast Radio Burst's afterglow.

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Astronomers Finally Tracked a Strange Radio Wave Burst to Its Source

With new insights into radio waves, scientists may be able to measure the mass of the universe

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (Mrs. Alexander Hamilton), 1787, Ralph Earl (1751-1801).

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Elizabeth Hamilton Once Posed for a Portrait in a New York City Prison

There was a dire need for painters to immortalize America’s elites

Shackleton brought everything from trashy novels to accounts of Arctic rescues with him to Antarctica.

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Historians Finally Figured Out What Was on Shackleton’s Bookshelf

The brave explorer likely found solace in his library

A black-belly dragonfish is just one of the small fish living in the mesopelagic zone 660 to 3300 feet below the surface of the ocean.

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This Sound Might Mean Dinnertime in the Deep Sea

Researchers record a chorus of deep sea animals as they migrate through the ocean

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This Twitter Account Turns Emojis Into Gallery Art

Tiny pictures, high art?

In Maryland, 13 bald eagles will soar no more.

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What Killed 13 Bald Eagles in Maryland?

Officials want information on the strange die-off of a clutch of majestic birds

My God, it's full of gas.

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Marvel at the Newest Map of the Milky Way

It is the most complete map of the cold galaxy ever made

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What the All Writs Act of 1789 Has to Do With the iPhone

How a law signed by George Washington is being applied to Apple

The Apollo 10 lunar module prepares for redocking.

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Mysterious “Music” Spooked Apollo 10 Astronauts

Archival audio reveals eerie sounds heard by astronauts on the dark side of the moon

Can humans stop a catastrophic rise in sea levels?

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Sea Levels Are Rising More Quickly Than in the Last Two Millennia

Here are five things to know about the rising tide

Harper Lee didn't like publicity.

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Listen to a Rare Interview With Harper Lee

“[A]ll I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama,” she told radio host Roy Newquist in 1964

Desert Gold wildflowers carpet Death Valley during the 2016 "super bloom."

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Death Valley Bursts to Life With Rare “Super Bloom”

A rare spectacle covers Death Valley in wildflowers

Up to 925,000 Jews and Romani were murdered at Treblinka, a Nazi extermination camp near Warsaw, Poland.

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Last Survivor of Treblinka, Final Destination for Up to 925,000 People, Has Died

Samuel Willenberg devoted the rest of his life to honoring those murdered at the camp

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