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These Groundbreaking Pilots Made History 30 Years Ago as the First American Women to Fly Combat Missions
Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender ...
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A Prominent Italian Dealer Has Been Charged With Trafficking Thousands of Looted Artifacts
The Manhattan district attorney's office has obtained an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià, who has been accused of working ...
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Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
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When Art Thieves Stole Four Andy Warhol Prints, They Didn’t Realize Only Two Would Fit in the Getaway Car
The robbers only made away with two of the screen prints, which they swiped from a gallery in the Netherlands. They abandoned ...
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Travelers Can Now Buy a Can of ‘100 Percent Authentic Air’ From Italy’s Lake Como
It's not the first time savvy entrepreneurs have marketed canned air to tourists. Similar products have been sold at vacation ...
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Rare ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Found in Colombia Reveals the Enormous Size of a Prehistoric Predator
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
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How the Berlin Wall Became a 100-Mile Bike and Pedestrian Trail
Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a ...
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See You Later, Wobbulator
Recently, SAAM acquired a “Wobbulator” built by Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe for its Nam June Paik Archive and were able to ...
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This Parasitic Fungus Turns Flies Into Zombie Insects
The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of ...
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Hurricane Helene Battered the ‘Salamander Capital of the World’ With Floods and Landslides. Will the Beloved Amphibians Survive the Aftermath?
When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...
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Chimpanzees Could Never Randomly Type the Complete Works of Shakespeare, Study Finds
While testing the "infinite monkey theorem," mathematicians found that the odds of a chimpanzee typing even a short phrase ...
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See New Images of Pesto, Australia’s Enormous Baby Penguin, in His ‘Awkward Phase,’ Molting His Downy Feathers
The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to lose his youthful down, a process that will give ...