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The MP3 Format is Music History’s Latest Casualty
The Institute that licenses MP3 tech recently stopped, but the format that began the digital music era may live on indefinitely
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What Is Bears Ears National Monument?
The Department of Interior will make a recommendation about the land’s fate in early June
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Spain’s Parliament Votes to Exhume a Dead Dictator
Franco’s reign of terror is over—but Spaniards are still making sense of his legacy
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Ebola Returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo
A single death has been confirmed—now public health officials must keep an outbreak from becoming an epidemic
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Massive Royal Atlas Gets Digitized
The magnificent Klencke Atlas is now available online courtesy of the British Library
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Witness the Document that Set the Trail of Tears in Motion
The Indian Removal Act is on display at the National Archives through June 14
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Hear a 20-Year-Old John F. Kennedy Speak
Archivist have recently digitized a clip from a 1937 public speaking course, believed to be the oldest recording of the president
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American Journalists Used Nazi-Provided Photos During World War II
A new report reveals more details about the Associated Press’ secret deal with the Third Reich
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Google Maps Glitch Sends Tourists to the Wrong Norwegian Town
Preikestolen is not in Fossmork
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Pricey Graphing Calculators Could Be Headed for Extinction
Major testing companies are adopting embedded web calculators instead of freestanding devices
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Minnesota Town Gets Veterans Memorial Covered With Satanic Imagery
It’s America’s first satanic monument on public grounds
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Thousands of Bodies Rest Under the University of Mississippi Medical Center Campus
The University hopes to remove the bodies and build a memorial and laboratory to study the former insane asylum patients
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British Parliament Ditches Parchment for Paper
But the debate between traditionalists and modernists isn’t over
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A Beach Disappeared in Ireland 33 Years Ago—Now It’s Back
Dooagh Beach is sandy once more
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Rhino Horn Stolen From the University of Vermont
A thief broke in and snatched the horn, which could be worth half a million dollars on the black market
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German Scientists Will Study Brain Samples of Nazi Victims
A research society is still coming to grips with its past—and learning more about how the Third Reich targeted people with disabilities
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Obamas Unveil Plans for Presidential Library and Museum
Located in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, the former first couple hopes the campus will help revitalize the area
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Rome Is Finally Restoring the Mausoleum of Augustus
Once the tomb of emperors, a project funded by a telecom company hopes to revive the massive monument now covered in trash and weeds
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Asian-American Superhero The Green Turtle Returns!
The character, created in the 1940s and revived in a 2014 graphic novel, stars in a new comic book to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
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How Shaving Brushes Gave World War I Soldiers Anthrax
A new paper looks back on an old epidemic—and raises fresh questions about antique shaving brushes
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