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Vita Sackville-West's hero predates and mirrors Woolf's androgynous time-traveler
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The first story featuring iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, 'A Study in Scarlet,' was published on this day in 1887—and set in Mormon Utah
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Scientists aren’t sure, but recent storms or burgeoning populations might be to blame
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The British Antarctic Survey's Halley VI research station will close for the second year due to cracking of the ice
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The politically dangerous work was painted over by Adrian Vanson two year after the queen's execution
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He rose to national attention after spearheading a 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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The mosaic hails from a “pleasure ship” built by the notorious emperor Caligula
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Four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey's dogs tested positive for banned substances, but Seavey claims it was sabotage
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Nochlin is best known for a 1971 essay theorizing that social institutions—and not a lack of talent—held women back in the art world
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And you're invited to collaborate on her very weird tales
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The letters from the <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> scribe include remembrances of Hollywood celebrities, a bit of history and some sass
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NASA's new SoundCloud playlist captures the sounds of planets, comets and plasma waves
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New research shows that even babies are creeped out by these wriggly critters
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Pedestrian crosswalks and roads have a complicated relationship
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Collected by an anthropologist in 1931, the National Museum of Natural History returned the bones to the village of Igiugig
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World Meteorological Organization reports that current atmospheric CO2 concentrations are at their highest level in 800,000 years
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Among the newly protected creatures are lions, chimpanzees, giraffes and whale sharks
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Zombies have offered a way to work out cultural fears about everything from race to climate change
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Popular media helped give witches their image
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From the serious—pod people—to the farcical—”feed me, feed me!”—this genre has produced some strange stuff
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