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		<title>After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After nearly two centuries, scientists have identified the plant pathogen that devastated Ireland, killing 1 million people and triggering a mass emigration. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/after-168-years-potato-famine-mystery-solved</link>
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		<title>Ancients First Ate Palms, Not Rice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study shows that agriculture may have emerged in southern China much earlier than previously thought. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/ancients-ate-palms-not-rice</link>
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		<title>Brood II: Return of the Cicada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brood II is no horror movie sequel. It’s one of nature’s greatest spectacles, coming to the East Coast this month.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/brood-ii-return-of-the-cicada</link>
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		<title>Chemist Solves Lincoln Funeral Train Mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Arizona chemist has solved a historical mystery by determining the color of the railroad car that transported Abraham Lincoln's body almost 150 years ago.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/chemist-solves-lincoln-funeral-train-mystery</link>
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		<title>Do You Speak Ice Age?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers may have traced hundreds of disparate languages to one Ice Age mother tongue. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/do-you-speak-ice-age</link>
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		<title>Evidence of Cannibalism Found at Jamestown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New evidence supports historical accounts that desperate Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism during the harsh winter of 1609-10. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/evidence-of-cannibalism-found-at-jamestown</link>
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		<title>Einstein&#8217;s Relativity Theory Passes Tough Test</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A rare binary star system has put Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to its most challenging test to date.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/einsteins-relativity-theory-passes-tough-test</link>
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		<title>Dinosaur Egg Study Suggests New Evolutionary Link With Birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study of fossilized dinosaur eggs provides evidence of similarities between the nesting behaviors of dinosaurs and their closest living relatives – birds.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/dinosaur-egg-study-suggests-new-evolutionary-link-with-birds</link>
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		<title>New Super-Earths May Support Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA announces the discovery of seven new distant planets, three of which may be able to support life.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/new-super-earths-may-support-life</link>
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		<title>Asteroid Set For a Close Encounter With Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An asteroid measuring about 150 feet across will make a historically close approach to Earth on February 15. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/asteroid-set-for-a-close-encounter-with-earth</link>
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		<title>Did Neanderthals Die Out Much Earlier Than We Thought?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study has cast doubt on a popular theory that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals once co-existed in Europe.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/did-neanderthals-die-out-much-earlier-than-we-thought</link>
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		<title>Languages Under Siege</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being spoken for 3,000 years, Aramaic, the language of Jesus, could soon be extinct.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/languages-under-siege</link>
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		<title>Prehistoric Beaches Hold Key to Understanding Climate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists are studying beaches dating to the mid-Pliocene era, some 3 million years ago, in order to predict how high sea levels might rise in the future.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-beaches-hold-key-to-understanding-climate-change</link>
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		<title>Piltdown Man Hoax, 100 Years Ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On its 100th anniversary, mystery still lingers over one of history's most spectacular scientific hoaxes. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/piltdown-man-hoax-100-years-ago</link>
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		<title>7 Things You May Not Know About the Nobel Prizes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Prizes, awarded annually on the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death, remain some of the most prestigious awards in the world.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-nobel-prizes</link>
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		<title>Ancient Chinese Forest Found Buried By Volcano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists in northern China are getting a rare glimpse into a prehistoric world, after discovering an ancient forest buried under a thick layer of volcanic ash near the Mongolian district of Wuda.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/ancient-chinese-forest-found-buried-by-volcano</link>
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		<title>First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have finally named a species for botanist Jeanne Baret, who disguised herself as a man to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/first-woman-to-circle-the-globe-honored-at-last</link>
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		<title>Remembering Marie Curie on Her 144th Birthday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Google Doodle pays homage to the pioneering scientist Marie Curie, who was born 144 years ago on November 7, 1867.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/remembering-marie-curie-on-her-144th-birthday</link>
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		<title>Remembering Albert Szent-Györgyi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 16 marks the 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian-born physiologist and biochemist who is honored in today’s Google Doodle.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/remembering-albert-szent-gyorgyi</link>
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		<title>This Year in History: 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 prepares to make its arrival, we take a look at some of the most exciting and consequential stories from this year in history.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.history.com/news/this-year-in-history-2010</link>
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