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The Invasion of Saint Pierre and Miquelon in 1941, the Only Nazi Germany-loyal Territory in North America, Lasted 20 Minutes
Free France volunteers on parade at Miquelon in 1941. Credit: Fondation de la France Libre Saint Pierre and Miquelon ...
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Volcanic Eruptions Didn’t Doom the Dinosaurs: Fossil Molecules Reveal Meteorite Came 30,000 Years Later
Deccan Traps, the volcanoes that could have wiped out the dinosaurs Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Deccan ...
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Beneath a Romanesque church in France archaeologists uncovered an earlier one, and beneath Merovingian tombs, and beneath Roman sarcophagi
Located on rue Michelet, near the imposing Saint-Bénigne Cathedral in Dijon, France, the Church of Saint-Philibert is not just a place of worship but also a silent witness to centuries of history and ...
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The Moon Is Much Older Than We Thought, and Its Crust Has Melted Several Times
A few hundred million years after its formation, the Moon was subject to intense volcanic activity. The distance between the Earth and the Moon was much smaller back then than it is today. Credit: ...
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An Ancient Floor Paved with Animal Bones Found in a Building in Alkmaar, Netherlands
Bone floor in a property in Achterdam, center of Alkmaar. Credit: Team Archeologie / Gemeente Alkmaar In the historic center of Alkmaar in the Netherlands, a team of municipal archaeologists made an ...
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Operation K: The Failed Second Japanese Aerial Attack on Pearl Harbor with Seaplanes, Three Months After the Initial Strike
A U.S. seaplane flies over Wotje Atoll, where the Japanese base from which Emily was to depart for Operation K was attacked by sea and air in February 1942. Credit: US Navy / Public domain / Wikimedia ...
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The Ancient Transantarctic Mountains That Split Antarctica in Two, A World You’ll Likely Never See Yourself
Hidden beneath the vast ice sheet that characterizes Antarctica, the Transantarctic Mountains rise as one of the longest and oldest mountain ranges on the planet. This range, extending over 3,500 ...
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The English Society Dedicated to the Study of Fairies, of Which Walt Disney Was a Member
When the bullfighter Rafael el Gallo was introduced to Ortega y Gasset and told that he was a philosopher, he left a phrase for posterity: There’s people for everything. This expression has become a ...
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A Roman Aqueduct Discovered in the Borsacchio Nature Reserve in Abruzzo, Central Italy
During modernization work on a gas pipeline near Cologna Spiaggia in the Borsacchio Nature Reserve, located in the Abruzzo region of Italy, underground structures were uncovered that point to the ...
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Mollusks Found in Building Materials Reveal Bronze Age Cretans Used Seagrasses to Make Their Bricks Fire-Resistant
A recent study led by Rena Veropoulidou (Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki) and Maud Devolder (Ghent University) has uncovered an innovative technique for unraveling the mysteries of Bronze ...