A federal judge has lifted a restraining order that briefly halted the planned removal
The commentary of Italian bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia was lost for 1,500 years before it was rediscovered in 2012
The Great Galveston Hurricane helped the city of Houston to rise to prominence
Albert Welles's ideas about whiteness were a reflection of his time, and would be continued into the future
This grueling nineteenth-century punishment was supposed to provide a torturous lesson about hard work
Take a tour of a few places showcasing this international favorite
The dead language was once the dominant tongue in Mesopotamia
Isaac Royall, Jr., who helped found the school in 1817, was a prosperous slaveholder
The city destroyed by a 4th-century tsunami is rediscovered
On Sunday, residents living within a mile of the site left their homes while the 4,000-pound "Blockbuster" was defused
The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
Between 1697-1698, the tsar visited Europe in disguise to learn about shipbuilding and Western culture. His verdict? Shave
The singer-songwriter's childhood stamp album offers an insight to his character
‘Free Air’ was a classic of the interwar generation
Archaeologists tested three methods the early hominins could have used to get tar from birch bark
She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn't go so well
They say baseball "lost its innocence" after 1919, but betting and other improper behavior was rampant in early-20th-century baseball
Residue from pots found in a Sicilian cave show grape wine was produced 3,000 years earlier than thought
A new study shows that the human remains looted in 2012 are more than 13,000 years old
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