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How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.
To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 ...
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Discover the Remarkable Paintings of Three Japanese Americans Whose Life Stories Are Told Through Their Work
A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...
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Uncovering the Secrets of Dinosaurs With Amazing Fossils
However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...
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Historians Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of a Curious 100-Year-Old Contraption Discovered in Storage
Staffers at the Dorchester County Historical Society in Maryland were baffled by the unusual machine, so they asked the ...
The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years
Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and ...
1932: The death of Robert S. Brookings, WashU leader and founder of Brookings Institution
On Nov. 15, 1932, Robert S. Brookings died in Washington, D.C. Brookings had a marked impact on Washington University, ...
A 150-million-year journey from the Jurassic to Exposition Park
It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...
George Harrison’s ‘Living in the Material World’ Is a Slept-On Masterpiece Worth Rediscovering
It might seem strange they didn’t think of doing this new edition of the album last year, in time for its 50th anniversary, ...