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  Record-breaking dinosaur footprint appears on the Yorkshire coast

  CNN

  CNN — A giant carnivorous dinosaur likely rested or crouched down in Yorkshire 166 million years ago, deeply pressing its feet into the ground. The colossal creature left behind a record-breaking footprint recently discovered along the United Kingdom’s “Dinosaur Coast.” The Jurassic footprint, …

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  The American Heiress Who Risked Everything to Resist the Nazis

  Smithsonian Magazine - Katya Cengel

  A terrified bald man stood in front of a Viennese apartment building on a cold evening. It was March 1938, and Nazi Germany had just annexed Austria. …

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  Maryland archaeologists find West African spirit cache at Harriet Tubman's birthplace

  CBS News - By CBS Baltimore Staff

  BALTIMORE -- Maryland archaeologists uncovered African religious artifacts on the Eastern Shore land where abolitionist Harriet Tubman was born into …

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  Emancipation Comes to West Virginia

  JSTOR Daily - Matthew Wills

  The Emancipation Proclamation exempted border states from the demand to free enslaved people. But what about West Virginia, which wasn’t yet a …

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  We found 2.9-million-year-old stone tools used to butcher ancient hippos—but likely not by our ancestors

  phys.org - Julien Louys

  On the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a short valley extends south towards the looming Mount Homa. From it have emerged some of the oldest-known …

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  2,000-Year-Old Castle Destroyed by Powerful Earthquake on the Border of Turkey and Syria

  My Modern Met - Jessica Stewart

  When a powerful earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, February 6, it caused mass devastation. With a magnitude of 7.8, it was the most powerful earthquake to hit the area in at least a century. The tremors, which latest for hours afterward, could be felt as far away as …