Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

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In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the ...

The mystery of what happened to the Roanoke settlers has plagued researchers for hundreds of years, however, the John White ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

The map identifies regions across the US that could be most at risk in the event of a nuclear conflict, with the ...

In 1914, explorer Fitzhugh Green shot and killed his Inuit guide Peeawahto at the northern tip of Axel Heiberg Island. This ...

Today the Mauritian Tuppeny Blue is worth around £2m. After Britain declared war against Germany in 1914, the tide of negative public opinion of Germans, where even possessing a dachshund was seen as ...

Donald Trump, who had dropped hints that he would begin his presidency with a demonstration of strength, delivered a speech heavy with nationalistic overtones as he vowed to "put America first".

President-elect Trump recently remarked Canada should be the “51st state” of the United States. Along with comments about ...

In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...

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