17 presidents who grew up in surprisingly humble homes

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Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia.
Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia.

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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

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Nobel Prize winners Ernest Lawrence Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Isaac Rabi stand together talking in the late 1930s
Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.

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Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history

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Researchers extracted ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.

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2 ocean-tech companies are competing in a multimillion-dollar race to find Amelia Earhart's wreckage. One says it may be near the finish line.

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Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928, in front of her biplane called 'Friendship' in Newfoundland.

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In 1870, a Black woman sued her enslaver for reparations and won

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A man holds a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

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Amelia Earhart's plane could be 'well preserved' but there's no guarantee it's been found, expert says

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Amelia Earhart's plane rising into the air after a 4,000-foot run at the start of the flight from Oakland, California, on March 17, 1937.
Amelia Earhart 's plane taking off from Oakland, California, on March 17, 1937.

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A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane — and may have found it

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Amelia Earhart seated atop the cockpit of the twin-motored, all-metal, Lockheed-Elecktra monoplane, is pictured adjacent to a sonar image of what researchers believe may be the wreckage of her ill-fated flight.
Amelia Earhart seated atop the cockpit of the twin-motored, all-metal, Lockheed-Elecktra monoplane, is pictured adjacent to a sonar image of what researchers believe may be the wreckage of her ill-fated flight.

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Ancient human DNA suggests Columbus may not have brought syphilis to Europe after all

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a picture shows ancient bones in situ in gravelly soil. The skeleton's shins are folded back against the person's chest.
Ancient remains dating back around 2,000 years suggest a cousin of syphilis spread around South America then, but not the sexually transmitted kind.

Dr. Jose Filippini

Rare postage 'gem' featuring the world's first adhesive stamp to be auctioned for up to $2.5 million in New York

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The May 2, 1840, Penny Black cover

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14 things you won't believe happened 30 years ago

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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago in 2024.

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