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Help Defend Against the Invaders

They have come to our country from all over the world, brought here in the bowels of ships, in the cargo holds of planes, even on the bottoms of our shoes

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Washington, D.C.

The city that has it all

Geary County Courthouse

Junction City, Kansas

A beautiful stop between St. Louis, Mo. and Denver, Co.

Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Grammy for his hit song "Feels So Good."

For Smithsonian, Mangione Memorabilia ‘Feels So Good’

The jazz flugelhornist and composer kicks off Jazz History Month with a donation to the National Museum of American History

"Woman teaching geometry" Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of Euclid's Elements (c. 1310 AD)

Female Scientists Aren’t THAT Rare

There are plenty of deserving women who never got so much as a nod.

Frustrated by human error, mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage designed a machine to perform mathematical functions and automatically print the results.

Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design

Charles Babbage, the grandfather of the computer, envisioned a calculating machine that was never built, until now

Congress wanted safe passage for white settlers on the Oregon Trail.

Carving Out the West at the Great Smoke Conference

In 1851, American Indian tribes gathered to seek protection of their western lands from frontiersman on the Oregon Trail

The Many Faces of Mami Wata

To win the favor of Mami Wata, one must be clean and sweet-smelling both inside and out

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