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- This Ship Sank in the Baltic Sea With Presents Bound for a Romanov Czar. Its Cargo Included Champagne, Luxury Mineral Water and Rare Meteorites
- This Indian Maharaja Saved Hundreds of Polish Orphans During World War II, Offering Them Refuge When No One Else Would
- Was There Ever an Original Version of 'The Odyssey,' and Do We Need to Worry About What Homer Would Think?
- Thousands of Intimate Photographs Reveal the Everyday Lives of the Romanovs, Russia's Last Imperial Family
- DNA Reveals the Identity of a Teenager Who Died in the Revolutionary War, Cracking a Nearly 250-Year-Old Cold Case
- Take an Exclusive Look at Three Newly Discovered Medieval Shipwrecks in Menorca's 'Cove of Mysteries'
- How Tens of Thousands of Irish Immigrants Led the Patriots to Victory During the American Revolution
- During World War I, This Woman Asked Americans to Welcome Immigrants—and Urged New Arrivals to Assimilate
- A Century and a Half After Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn Continues to Mystify
- How Angry, Out-of-Work Fishermen Saved the Patriots During the American Revolution
- America's 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation's 'Greatest Flop.' What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?
- This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades
- The History of the Beach Read, From 19th-Century 'Moral Debasement' to BookTok
- The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
- How A.I. Will Reshape Radiology—Without Replacing Radiologists
- A Brief History of Hold Music, From Early Patents to the Soundtrack of Customer-Service Purgatory
- How Shrimp Shells Are Being Turned Into 'Carbon Negative' Fuel, Food and Construction Materials
- Can Printed 'Skin' Heal Burns and Prevent Scars?
- 100 Years Ago, Students Across the U.S. Took the First SAT. Today, Relatively Few Colleges Require the Test. Where Is It Headed?
- Scientists Are Using Nanomaterials to Heal Stubborn Wounds That Resist Antibiotic Treatment
- Cellphones Were Created to Untether Us. Then They Got Smart and Evolved Into an Omnipotent Appendage
- This Unsung Black Developer Unlocked the Code to Turning a Video Game Console Into a Virtual Living Room Arcade
- With a Few Tweaks, the Country’s Favorite Sports Went From Pastimes to Part of the Fabric of Our Culture
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- How the Hashtag Became the Way to Instantly Invite Literally Everyone Into the Conversation
- A Moment of Divine Inspiration Helped Melvil Dewey Bring Obsessive Order to the Infinitely Disorganized Stacks in the Library