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World War II has recently ended, and the horrors of the Holocaust have been revealed. The creation of the state of Israel is almost two years away, but the notion [...]

The magazine's February 1925 issue was devoted solely to one article--an epic, 5,000-mile journey down the length of Africa by boat, train, and foot. At that time the American public [...]

Ancient chronicles say that Teti, thunder of Egypt's 6th dynasty more than 4,300 years ago, was assassinated. His successor lasted less than two years before Teti's son Pepy I seized [...]

A four-piece rock band wailing outside Mike Hammond's Walla Walla, Washington, muffler shop (above) brings sweet music in the form of customers. Hammond, a drummer himself, has crafted everything from [...]

For the first time in two decades, Easter visitors to Milan will be able to see Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" free of scaffolding and the distortions of earlier retouchings. [...]

The last total solar eclipse of the millennium held special treasures for astronomers like lay Pasachoff of Williams College. He observed the August 11, 1999, eclipse from 'ground zero': Rimnicu [...]

Roughly 18,000 years ago the ice sheet that extended south of the present-day Great Lakes began to recede. By about 8,200 years ago the leading edge of the ice had [...]

With 107 years under her belt, Ora Glass of Omaha, Nebraska, shown visiting a school in 1995, belongs to a growing group: In the most recent census 37,306 Americans said [...]

Some things just take a while. In 1482 Leonardo da Vinci began work on an equestrian statue for the Duke of Milan. But a French invasion thwarted his plan, and [...]

When the Italian state railway began work on a major junction at Pisa in 1998, archaeologists, knowing ancient ruins existed nearby, made a test dig in the sandy soil. What [...]

Relishing the Radish Think of a radish: small, round, red, and used to spice up a salad. Now consider the radish first imported by Spanish colonists and still grown in [...]

There doesn't seem to be much to this little piece of rock just a tenth of an inch thick, but looks can be deceiving. While examining a sediment core extracted [...]