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Often compared to American blues, fado is gaining global appeal
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How “I do” is done around the world
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FOR HIRE: Secret Service Agent
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Momentous or Merely Memorable
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The devout pay respects to Aaron
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Two thousand years ago, it was the capital of a powerful trading empire. Now archaeologists are piecing together a picture of Jordan’s compelling rock city
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Relics from her 1431 execution are a forgery. Will we ever know the real Joan of Arc?
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Ferdinand Magellan’s global journey gave him fame, but took his life
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To help revive his North Dakota hometown, a former high-school principal created giant sculptures to grace a stretch of prairie highway
Tumbledown structures recall dude ranching’s heyday
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After fighting neglected diseases in Africa for a quarter century, former president Jimmy Carter takes on one of the continent’s biggest killers malaria
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This summer, the Rockefellers are donating a final 1,106 acres, a spectacular parcel to be open to the public for the first time in 75 years
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