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Scientists have discovered an ancient species of crocodile. The fossil was identified in the Mokattam Formation, which ...

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Welcome to the postliterate era. By Mary Harrington and Raina Raskin Nick Bostrom is no longer worried about the apocalypse. Now he’s worried about utopia. By Spencer A. Klavan and Sophia Muniz And ...

July 3, 1863. After a thunderous artillery barrage, 13,000 Confederates march a mile and a half across open fields toward the Union line on Cemetery Ridge. Relive Pickett's Charge through the words of ...

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Catherine Parker is a native of Houston (she even graduated from the University of Houston) and now lives in Austin, Texas. She uses her first-hand experience to offer tips and tricks that will make ...