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Archeologists Discover Nearly 2,000-Year-Old Pet Cemetery in Egypt

Containing 100 lovingly positioned creatures, the site suggests that the ancients could have valued their companion animals as much as we do

The mansion at Bletchley Park.

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Alan Turing’s World War II Headquarters Will Once Again House Codebreakers

Bletchley Park is being revived as a cybersecurity training center

Protestors at the Oceti Sakowin Camp

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Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Are Over, For Now

The Army Corps of Engineers announced it will not issue an easement to complete the pipeline, but the incoming administration could change course

Grab your coats—this was the scene on Mauna Kea this morning.

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Hawaii Faces Down Nearly Three Feet of Snow

And more of the white stuff is on its way to the Big Island’s tallest peaks

Feeling down? Many would reach for comfort food like pasta casserole—but you may as well go for a salad, research says.

Comfort Foods Aren’t Magic, But Memory Might Be

On National Comfort Food Day (yeah it’s a thing), dig into the powers of food and how it makes us feel

Abraham Ortelius created the world's first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, or "Theater of the World," in 1570. Shakespeare, who famously wrote that "all the world's a stage," was doubtless influenced by the maps that flourished during his lifetime.

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How Maps Shaped Shakespeare

An exhibition in Boston delves into historical maps to show how the Bard saw the wider world

Two supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment demonstrate in August 1980.

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These Photos Bring the Women’s Movement to Life

Catching the Wave dramatizes the large and small moments of second-wave feminism

Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, in an undated photo.

When Women Weren’t Allowed to Go to Harvard, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Brought Harvard to Them

Unlike other women’s colleges of the day, the Annex was intimately connected with Harvard

“Current” would turn the entire stretch of the river into a dynamic, multi-colored piece of art.

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Ambitious New Public Art Project Will Turn the Thames Into an Illuminated Canvas

When Illuminated River launches in 2018, it will be the biggest such project ever undertaken

Things are getting steep in Western Norway.

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Escape With a Virtual Ride on the World’s Steepest Train

Things are looking up (down, right and left) thanks to a 360-degree video captures a stunning Norwegian fjord

Proposal for Trinity Park

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Dallas Proposes the Country’s Largest Urban Park

A 10,000-acre Nature District could turn the Trinity River into the city’s centerpiece

A partial skull of an ancient elephant uncovered in a new L.A. Metro station.

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Construction Workers Uncover Ancient Elephant Bones Under L.A.’s Subway

But it won’t slow the metro down

The new, meatier five-pound note

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Why Vegetarians Hate the U.K.’s New £5 Note

The new currency uses a polymer that contains some animal fat, and it turns out at least 24 other nations use the same product

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Listen to This Holly, Jolly (and a Little Creepy) A.I.-Penned Christmas Song

A neural network at the University of Toronto wrote a holiday ditty based on an image of a Christmas tree

The Gävle Goat in 2006

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For 50 Years, This Swedish City Has Celebrated Christmas Season With a Giant Straw Goat

And most of the time it meets a fiery end

Turtle grass may rely on tiny crustaceans as pollinators.

Meet the Newly Discovered Pollinators Under the Sea

The tiny crustaceans are challenging previous assumptions about how plants grow underwater

Much of Belgium's beer is made by Trappist monks.

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Unesco Just Added Belgian Beer to Its Heritage List

The move celebrates the tiny country’s huge love of suds

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Goodbye, Barrow, Alaska. Hello, Utqiagvik

The most northerly city has officially reverted back to the Inupiaq name for the settlement on the Arctic sea

A sinkhole recently discovered in northwestern China.

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Massive Cluster of Sinkholes Found Deep in China’s Mountainous Northwest

The network of pockmarks is packed with old-growth forests and giant flying squirrels

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There’s a Department of Government Ethics? What Does it Do?

What is the agency weighing in on the incoming administrations potential conflicts of interest?

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