The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...

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Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...

It's not clear how the juvenile male ended up so far north, but experts suggest he was motivated by his appetite ...

The robbers only made away with two of the screen prints, which they swiped from a gallery in the Netherlands. They abandoned ...

Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender ...

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While testing the "infinite monkey theorem," mathematicians found that the odds of a chimpanzee typing even a short phrase ...

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Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a ...