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In 1901, the Canadian mariner John Voss set sail from British Columbia in a modified dugout canoe. He was headed for ...
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The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house, and a motel owned by ...
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Unity College acquired the panels in 1991 after they were removed from the White House, and they were used to heat water at ...
“Swords like this are very special,” Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire, the site’s lead archaeologist, tells Smithsonian magazine. “It looks like the man it was buried ...
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