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This Gallery Is Dedicated to Coal Miners’ Art
The Mining Art Gallery showcases works created by the thousands of miners who’ve lived and worked in the Great Northern Coalfield
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Five Things to Know About the Yellowstone Supervolcano
There’s no need to worry: It’s unlikely it will blow anytime soon
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Look Up: The Orionid Meteor Shower Will Streak Through Skies This Weekend
Bits of Halley’s Comet are raining down on Earth, and the show will peak in the wee hours of Saturday morning
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Tragedy and Beauty of Nature on Display in This Year’s Best Wildlife Photos
The 16 award-winning images range from whimsical birds to the tragic aftermath of a poaching raid
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Now You Can Virtually Visit Quttinirpaaq National Park, One of the Most Remote Places on Earth
Google Street Views records the wonders of the northerly jewel
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Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts will begin admitting girls next year, just one of many changes the organization has undergone over the years
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Massive Green Squash Smashes Record for World’s Largest
Joe Jutras’ 2118-pound squash makes him the first person to earn the record for largest pumpkin, longest gourd and heaviest squash
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Virtually Explore a World War II Shipwreck in 360 Degrees
High-resolution video and 3D scanning brings the SS Thistlegorm to armchair archaeologists everywhere
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Canoe Churned up by Irma May Date to the 1600s
Radiocarbon dating shows the dugout canoe found in Cocoa, Florida, has a 50 percent chance of being from 1640 to 1680
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The grassroots coalition spearheaded a U.N. treaty to outlaw nuclear arms and hopes to make them taboo, like chemical weapons
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An October Harvest Moon Rises Tonight
The full moon closest to the equinox rises soon after sunset, casting a glow early evening that helps farmers bring in their crops
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What to Know About Literature’s Newest Nobel Winner British Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro
The author of The Remains of the Day and seven other books explores themes of memory, time and self-deception
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The Founder of Primal Scream Therapy Has Died. What Exactly Is Primal Scream Therapy?
Arthur Janov believed encountering trauma from childhood could help free people from adult neuroses
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Turkey Claims It’s Found Saint Nicholas’ Crypt
Archaeologists say the body was not stolen by crusaders in the 11th century and is still located below a church in Demre
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Controversial Hawaiian Telescope Gets State Approval
The long-delayed Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea faces opposition from native Hawaiian groups and environmentalists
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Three Scientists Behind the Detection of Gravitational Waves Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
The trio is the leading force behind the massive pair of detectors that can measures ripples in the fabric of space-time smaller than the width of a proton
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Saudi Women Win the Right to Drive
Next June, women in the ultra-patriarchal society will become the last in the world to receive driver’s licenses
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Watch a Dinosaur Opera at New York’s American Museum of Natural History
Sink your teeth into the family friendly “Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt”
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Intact WWI German U-Boat Found Off the Coast of Belgium
It’s possible that 23 bodies remain inside the main cabin of the submarine, which likely hit a mine
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Researchers Want to Revive These 30 Antique English Words
The public can vote on their favorite from a list including hugger-mugger, rouzy-bouzy, nickum and sillytonian
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