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This way to Middle-earth!

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Madeleine L'Engle had other priorities.

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An excerpt from Michael Ohl's 'The Art of Naming.'

Following age-related complications, Sudan—the last male northern white rhinoceros alive—was euthanized by a team of vets in Kenya in March 2018. But his genetic material could still be used to help save the species.

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Sorry, Singaporeans.

William Penn Adair Rogers ranks among the finest performers, comedians, and social commentators in American history.

The philosopher believed in making every man his own statue.

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It's a feat some scientists thought was impossible.

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Calling all history buffs.

You see them every day, on TV shows, the news, and in movies, but how well do you know the most oft-used film transitions?

They'll be softer, too, but still not painless if you step on one.

Dagwood once showed readers how to split the atom in a bit of pro-nuclear power propaganda.

If we ever met an alien in person, it probably wouldn't look like E.T.

The red ochre pigment might have been used for art or to color animal skins.

Thanks to the movie, visitors to the National Archives keep asking guards if there's really a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence.

"Yelling at a patient or cheering them on has never brought them back to life."

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