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Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions

“It didn’t look like America. It looked like Soweto.”

Richard III Really Ate and Drank Like a King

An analysis of a skeleton dug up two years ago and shown to belong to Richard III reveals that fresh fish, game birds and wine were staples of his diet.

Where’s the one place in the world where nobody’s messed with WW II relics?

It’s Kiska island in Alaska. And the public’s barred.

Secrets of the Clinton Library

Six months after the National Archives began releasing long-withheld Clinton White House documents, thousands of pages of the most sensitive records are still not yet public.

Beloit College is out with its annual list of what freshman know ... Tiny Tim? Carl Sagan? Forget about it.

Students heading into their first year of college this year were generally born in 1996. Among those who have never been alive in their lifetime are Tupac Shakur, JonBenet Ramsey, Carl Sagan, and Tiny Tim.

India Bans Indira Gandhi Assassination Film

Certification board chair Leela Samson said panel members decided the film could not be released because it posed a threat to public "law and order."

Asahi retraction reignites Japan debate over wartime brutality

In a four-page “re-examination” of decades of reporting about the comfort women, published over two days last week, the Asahi formally retracted 16 stories it wrote about Yoshida from 1982 to 1997.

Chung Eun-yong,Who Helped Expose U.S. Killings of Koreans, Dies at 91

He sent more than a dozen petitions to the American government demanding an apology and compensation.

Paris is celebrating 70 years since liberation from Nazi occupation, with little contribution from US or UK

The week-long celebrations have focused mainly on the part played by French civilians and fighters, 

Neanderthals Died Out 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought, With Help From Modern Humans

New fossil dates show our ancient cousins disappeared 40,000 years ago.

The Millennials Are Generation Nice

Suddenly, as you may have noticed, millennials are everywhere.

Lost in Translation: Germany’s Fascination With the American Old West

“We have always been concerned about the sacred objects, and careful that our displays respect native peoples’ wishes for their treatment."

Website publishes 40 amazing maps that show the Roman Empire's rise and fall

by Timothy B. Lee

Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire — its rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world.

Secrets Of Iceberg That Sank The Titanic Revealed In New Study

Ever since RMS Titanic sank on that fateful day in 1912, scientists have been struggling to explain the "perfect storm of circumstances that conspired to doom" the luxury liner.

Former Nixon Counsel John Dean: Right-Wing Media Impeachment Calls, Watergate Comparisons "Absolutely Silliness"

"The conservative media just doesn't seem to understand the impeachment clause. It is not designed to ... besmirch a president with, and that's all they're doing with it."

First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum

Revisiting the nightmares of World War I.

Where We Came From, State by State

Researchers have charted how Americans have moved between states since 1900. See how your state has changed.

Amsterdam to give 'Black Pete' Santa sidekick a makeover

Amsterdam authorities unveil plans to change image of 'Black Pete', the sidekick to Dutch Santa Claus.

More heritage sites destroyed in Iraq -- And ISIS brags about it!

by Christopher Jones

ISIS released another series of photographs of the demolition of shrines and mosques.

Egyptian Mummy-Making May Have Started Way Earlier Than Scientists Thought

The finding pushes back known use of the multi-ingredient ointment by about 2,000 years.