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The Getty Villa Reopens Six Months After the Devastating Palisades Fire
The iconic Los Angeles venue is welcoming visitors back with a new exhibition featuring artworks and artifacts from ancient Greece ...
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A Rare, Pregnant Ichthyosaur Fossil Discovered in Chile Is Revealing More Secrets About the Early Cretaceous World
Glaciers in Chile’s Patagonia region have been melting in recent years, exposing fossils underneath. Judith Pardo-Pérez, a ...
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The Largest Martian Meteorite in the World Is Heading to Auction and Could Sell for $4 Million
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
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U.S. Measles Cases Reach a Record High Since the Disease Was Declared Eliminated 25 Years Ago
With nearly six months left in the year, the total number of cases so far in 2025 has surpassed every year since 1992 ...
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How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide
Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...
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Jane Austen Never Loved Bath—but Bath Loves Jane Austen. Now, the City Is Exploring Why the Novelist Was So Unhappy There
To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition spotlights her complicated relationship with the English city ...
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A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs - Smithsonian Magazine
A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs Daniel Bachman is on a mission to evoke Virginia’s past through strange medleys of sounds ...