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The Hatfield clan in 1897

A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics

A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder

A Second Wind

An unlikely alliance of Midwesterners says it is time to take another look at generating electricity through wind power

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Night Belongs to the Kiwi

It may look fuzzy and adorable but this New Zealand bird is one tough customer

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Hawaii’s Vanished Birds

For the National Zoological Park, an artist depicts the diversity of the islands’ extinct avian species

Chartres Cathedral

Beasts on High

Journal of Arnold Bennett

Bedtime Reading

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Splendors of Topkapi

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Day by Day, In Pursuit of Justice

In Washington County, Vermont, prosecutors face mounting caseloads, looming deadlines —and ongoing drama

Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, painted in 1920

A Fury from Hell—or Was He?

As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate

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When Magma’s On the Move

In California’s Long Valley, the earth trembles every day where a volcano once exploded

Sand dunes in the Rig-e Jenn in the Dasht-e Kavir

Casting Light on Iranian Deserts

Closely watched by their guides and military escort, harried biologists survey the wild things that survive there

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Redefining Robots

At his laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, researcher Mark Tilden creates machines that march to the beat of a different drummer

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“You Gotta Remember, Eels Are Weird”

They’re slimy, snaky, ugly and repulsive, but once you acquire a taste for this much-maligned species, “slippery as an eel” becomes a compliment

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Last of the Wild Buffalo

Long displayed, long dispersed, the famous Hornaday bison “family” is reunited in a new home

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When Permafrost Isn’t

Slowly rising temperatures are melting the frozen ground that underlies most land at high latitudes

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The End of the Road

In Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest, old logging roads that ruin streams are getting the axe

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Yalta: Witness to History

When the Big Three —Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin —convened at this fabled Crimean seaside resort in 1945, the whole world was watching

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