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The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

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Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction at Colonial Williamsburg. On October 10, 1994, two Black men and two Black women were led up the steps and onto the porch of an 18th-century tavern.

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A 1999 photo shows Princeville, North Carolina, submerged under several feet of floodwater from the Tar River following Hurricane Floyd. 1999 News & Observer file photo North Carolina will install a ...

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Couples often hunt for poetic lines to use in their vows or décor, but many famous quotations about love attributed to Mark Twain, Albert Einstein or Bob Marley were never said by them. By Stuart ...