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By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent acts of civil disobedience ...
Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...
The 404 coins, including 44 from Britain, are believed to be a mix of military pay and the spoils of war, stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned to the European continent ...
Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...
Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...
The portrait of a fisherman was found in Minnesota by an anonymous collector. A new analysis has concluded that it could be ...
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...
A Shakespeare scholar at Harvard University explains how the creative collaboration that happens in theater can be a model ...
A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...