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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

“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

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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

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

John Lewis has been arrested at least 45 times—and three previously buried records have now been unearthed

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John Lewis’ Arrest Records Are Finally Uncovered

“Good trouble” led to real consequences for the civil rights agitator

An FBI photo of the airplane D.B. Cooper hijacked.

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You Can Help Try to Track Down D.B. Cooper’s True Identity by Digging Through FBI Files

A crowdsourced project is trying to identify the infamous skyjacker once and for all

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Newly Uncovered Ruins Reveal 7,000-Year-Old City in Egypt

Ancient huts and tombs could be the final resting places of local elites

A detail of a 17th century map found stuffed in a Scottish chimney.

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Rare 17th-Century Map Found Shoved Up a Chimney Is Restored

Nothing like an antique document to block a draft

The meteorite sample recovered near Perth in western Australia.

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Stargazers Help Track Down a Freshly Fallen Meteorite in Western Australia

A network of cameras and smartphone apps are helping Australian researchers hunt for space rocks

The Bishop's lump

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Researchers Trace 300-Year-Old Lump of Poop to Danish Bishop

The upper class contents of the little nugget suggests it likely belonged to Bishop Jens Bircherod or his wife

Mercury's Great Valley is the dark blue stripe across the center of the image.

Life in the Cosmos

Mercury’s Newly-Discovered “Great Valley” Puts Earth’s Grand Canyon to Shame

The vast scar across the tiny planet is remarkable in itself—but it also reveals that Mercury may still be tectonically active

This whale is on is own sightseeing tour.

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New York’s Upper West Side Has Its Own Whale

The mammal is on what seems to be an epic tour of Manhattan

A detailed image of the baby crocodiles inside the mummy.

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Crocodile Mummy Found Packed With Dozens of Smaller Crocodile Mummies

The little critters escaped notice until high-powered modern scanners tackled the mummified remains

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One Hundred Years Ago, the Titanic’s Sister Ship Exploded While Transporting Injured WWI Soldiers

Bad luck seemed to follow the White Star Line’s infamous steam liners

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What Pilgrims Heard When They Arrived in America

They came to America seeking religious freedom, but what did their prayers, and those of the local Native Americans, sound like?

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New Dictionary Explains 45,000 English and Irish Surnames

Using sources dating back to the 11th century, researchers have put together the massive Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

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