Just north of the Alps, on the border between Germany and Switzerland, lies beautiful Lake Constance. And on the northwest shore of the lake is the lovely small city of Constance, Germany. Constance is well worth a visit. A lot of German cities have rather bland or unattractive centers, thanks to the American and British […]
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Scientists in Berlin performed a battery of tests on a 3,400-year-old weapon
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People have only recently included Indigenous voices in the story
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Now this Seth… did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues…. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be […]
Miriam Menkin didn’t achieve the same fame as her colleague John Rock, but the life-changing procedure wouldn’t be possible without her
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These millennia-old punchlines aren’t exactly gut-busters today
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Teeth have revealed that victims traveled from far-off homelands
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And their meaning has shifted over millennia
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The ancient institution shaped education as we know it today
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These feathery gas detectors became beloved pets in the dark depths
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