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Why We All Need the Scientific Study of Religion. The author, sociologist Samuel Perry, will help you understand how social ...

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French ...

Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.

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Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the ...

2. The singer has been named the second greatest pop star of the 21st century by Billboard magazine, which has been gradually unveiling its ranking in a series of articles. Billboard describes the ...

The intact burial—unearthed on this day in 1922—contained a “wonderful” cache of objects linked to the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Eli Wizevich History Correspondent Tutankhamun's tomb wasn ...

Have you ever heard of Camp Century? I didn't until I read this incredible story by Kathryn Hansen of NASA... In April 2024, NASA scientist Chad Greene flew aboard a Gulfstream III with a team ...

Case in point: Camp Century, the US Army’s subterranean nuclear apocalypse bunker built inside Greenland’s near-surface ice sheet. Construction on the sprawling underground facility began in ...

Hirshorn admits that marking the 20th anniversary of such devastation is deeply sobering but finds solace in the fact that such milestones tend to make people more receptive than usual to helpful ...