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The ziggurat of Nimrud was the ancient city’s central temple
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On this day 149 years ago, the first digital transmitter debuted
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The late, great reporter turned curiosity into a career that changed journalism
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<i>Dungeons & Dragons</i>, Little People and the humble swing are this year’s toy honorees
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The broadcaster just donated his personal archive to the University of Iowa
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Archaeological digs at the Curtain theater suggest it looked very different from the Bard’s usual venues
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The Interior Department has designated new landmarks including James Merrill's house, a silent film studio and the only human-shaped effigy mound
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A team has found the The J.S. Seaverns which sank in Michipicoten harbor in 1884 with its hull intact and dishes still on the shelves
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Long abandoned, the dilapidated factory is where the industrialist put over 1,200 threatened Jews to work during World War II
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The city announced plans to take over the now-vacant nightclub where 49 guest were gunned down
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The “Dora” is returning to the tracks of the U-Bahn
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The 9,000-year-old tool shows that Mesolithic people had sophisticated burial rituals and even cremated their dead
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The purported bomb was discovered by a man searching for sea cucumbers
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An estimated 80 percent of silent movies with all-black casts are thought to be lost, but a new project is making sure the people who made them aren't
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The ideology has been used to whitewash slavery’s role in the Civil War for generations
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100 years ago, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress
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An old photograph led archaeologists to the long-lost well
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<i>KindredSpaces</i> brings together kindred spirits interested in the life and legacy of Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Fingerprints, wear marks and other details show the beautiful manuscript was once a teaching tool, not a royal collectible
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Over four decades of TV broadcasting, “Uncle Walter” defined a nation’s news
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