Daily Difference
Can you spot all of the differences in the pictures?
Can you spot all of the differences in the pictures?
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It's a common scene in medieval marginalia. But what does it mean?
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New technical analysis dates Yale's Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested
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But national population numbers have tripled since then. Influenza killed one in 150 Americans, while one in 500 people have died from the coronavirus
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One town's strange journey from paranoia to pardon
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Researchers captured more than 5,000 birds to learn how our now-extinct ancestors foraged for food
