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An amazing find in a Wisconsin lake has rewritten the timeline of advanced cultures in North America by centuries.

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Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

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