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Before Jamestown, before Plymouth Rock, before there was any permanent English foothold in what would become the United States, there was Roanoke. In the late 1580s, England made one…
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Think of how much has changed in the world since the year 578. The Roman Empire had fallen in the West about a century earlier. The Prophet Muhammad was…
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In October 1869, two workers digging a well behind a barn on a farm in Cardiff, in upstate New York, struck something hard. As they cleared away the earth,…
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Early in the morning of June 30, 1908, over the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, the sky tore open. Witnesses dozens of miles away described…
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Long before travel bloggers and bucket lists, the ancient Greeks compiled the original list of must-see sights: the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was, in essence, a…
English has a reputation, only half-joking, for following other languages down dark alleys and rifling through their pockets for loose vocabulary. It is a language built almost entirely out of…