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Georgetown University Is Trying to Purge Its Slave Trade Connections

Financed in part by the sale of 272 people, the school is grappling with its relationship to the institution of slavery

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The Classic Coca-Cola Bottle Turns 100 Today

To this day, the shapely glass bottle defines the classic drink

Ships along the Mississippi River in New Orleans

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Is $30 Million Enough to Save the Mississippi River Basin?

The USDA has a plan to help the troubled watershed

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Does This Brooklyn Sculpture Say ‘Oy’?

…or is it saying ‘Yo’?

Soon, space miners could lay claim to minerals in asteroids like this one.

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Get Your Pickaxe and Spacecraft Ready, Space Mining Might be Legal Very Soon

The new Space Act would open up the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining

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Why Librarians Should Love Fallout 4

To survive this video game’s nuclear wasteland, players need to return their library books

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Manhattan Project Sites to Be Opened to the Public

Manhattan Project Historical Park will preserve three sites from the beginning of the Atomic Age

Amedeo Modigliani, "Nu Couché," 1917

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This Is the Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold At Auction

Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu Couché drew a stunning $170.4 million

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So Long Shamu Show

In the face of criticism, SeaWorld is retiring its controversial killer whale show

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Whisky Grains and Coffee Grounds Could Help Clean up Nuclear Waste

Distilleries could soon be helping save the environment as they bottle up their next batch of brown

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The Antares Spacecraft Explosion in Horrifyingly Beautiful Detail

New photos show the grim (yet beautiful) blast

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NASA is Hiring Astronauts for Future Deep Space Missions

Do you want to head to Mars?

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Seattle’s Famous ‘Gum Wall’ Is Getting Scraped Clean

An estimated 1,000,000 pieces of chewing gum are stuck to the quirky attraction

The Russian Imperial Family, as photographed in 1911. The Russian Orthodox Church has not recognized the remains of Maria (second from left) and Alexei (second from right), despite DNA analysis.

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Why Russia Is Digging Up The Bones of a 19th-Century Tsar

A new DNA analysis aims to end speculation about the last Romanovs—but hasn’t the mystery already been solved?

Soldiers of the 44th Division at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in a gas mask drill. The experiments however, exposed troops to chemical weapons without such protection.

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The Tragic Aftermath of Mustard Gas Experiments in World War II

An NPR investigation is looking for victims of the U.S. military tests

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Soon, Guinness Will Be Vegan

The Irish brewery will no longer use fish bladders to make its beer

Saiga antelope with two calves at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Kalmykia, Russia

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The Culprits Behind Mysterious Mass Antelope Deaths Finally Exposed

More than half of the world’s endangered saiga antelopes died suddenly on the Central Asian steppes last spring

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Orion’s Return, Falling Fireballs and Other Treats in November’s Night Skies

A constellation rises as the Leonid and Taurid Meteor Showers return

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Amazon Just Opened An Actual Bookstore in Seattle

And just like its online marketplace, Amazon’s brick-and-mortar shop aims to shake up the industry

Russia's Anna Sidorova plays during the 2014 World Women's Curling Championship.

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The World of Competitive Curling Has Its Very Own Scandal

Is new technology too dominant for the Olympic sport?

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