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Human Ancestors Crafted Advanced Tools Earlier Than Thought Will Hurricane Irene Spawn a Baby Boom? Why Do Hurricanes Have Names? Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Opens in Washington, D.C.: Photos Secret Agents in Hoop Skirts: Women Spies of the Civil War Lager: Patagonian for Beer? 10 Famous Art Heists: Slideshow Did Skin Cream Kill Egypt’s Queen Hatshepsut? Can We Stop Blaming Rats for the Black Death? Albert Brown, Oldest U.S. Survivor of Bataan March, Dies at 105 Headless Hercules Unearthed in Israel People Rumored to Have Survived Their Deaths: Slideshow Corrupt Roman Gladiators Busted by Cops Reflecting on the Berlin Wall, 50 Years After Its Construction Panic on the Streets of London: A History World War II Resistance Heroine, Savior of Thousands, Dies at 98 Assistance Dogs: Learning New Tricks for Centuries U-2 Spy Plane’s Retirement Signals the End of an Era Is Rome’s Pantheon a Giant Sundial? Prehistoric Monsters of the Deep: Slideshow Titanic’s First Victim Gets Headstone At Last The Music Video, Before Music Television Tombs of the Apostles: Slideshow In Search of “Don Quixote” Creator’s Lost Bones Who Were the Knights Templar? Music Legends Who Lived Fast and Died at 27: Slideshow Keeping Cool Through the Ages: Slideshow Remembering the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) In Shining Armor, Medieval Knights May Not Have Shone Introducing Your Inner Neanderthal Ancient Medicines From Shipwreck Shed Light on Life in Antiquity Caligula Statue Seized From Looters Is Unveiled Survivors in a Half Shell: Turtles Withstood Dinosaur Die-Out History at 40 Paces: Legendary Duels Slideshow: When Artifacts Become Astronauts Did Viking Warriors Bare Groovy Teeth? Video: Space Shuttle Milestones Video: The Declaration of Independence Fireworks’ Vibrant History Cleaning of Alamo Reveals Historic Graffiti Slideshow: Orbit-Clogging Space Junk A Wise Man’s Cure: Frankincense and Myrrh Dino Temperature Puzzle: Scientists Get Warmer Famous Gangster Informants in U.S. History Earliest American Art Found in Florida? Gladiator Cries Foul Over Ref’s Blown Call From the Grave Summer Solstice Traditions Hammocks’ Rocking History Slideshow: History’s Best and Worst Dads Eating As the Romans Ate A Taste of Lobster History 95 Years of Flag Day Pentagon Papers Fully Declassified on Famous Leak’s 40th Anniversary Was King Tut Buried in a Hurry? Shroud of Turin: The Work of a Renaissance Artist? Slideshow: History of the Duke and Duchess’ New Digs Civil War Deadlier Than Previously Thought? 125 Years Ago: Nice Day for a White House Wedding She’s Leaving Home: Our Female Ancestors’ Wanderlust Perilous Produce A Tale of Two Guns: Legendary Gangsters’ Revolvers Up for Auction Satellite Images Provide Blueprint for Ancient Egypt Civil War Week on HISTORY How the U.S. President Became the Nation’s Star Athlete From Pope Urban VII to Bloomberg, Four Centuries of Smoking Bans Video: Building the Brooklyn Bridge Researchers Explore the Seafaring Culture of the Maya Did Early Humans Stand Upright to Punch Better? Anchor Away for Blackbeard’s Pirate Flagship Egyptian Princess Needed Bypass Surgery, Mummy Study Shows Apocalypses That Weren’t Archaeologists Bring Mona Lisa’s Top Model to Light Friday the 13th: History of a Phobia Slideshow: Longest-Reigning British Monarchs What Killed Charles Darwin? 10 Surprising Civil War Facts Raising a Toast With George Washington’s Beer The March of the Giant Ants Last World War I Combat Veteran Dies Slideshow: 50th Anniversary of the First American in Space France’s Green Fairy Flies Again Egypt’s Most Wanted: An Antiquities Wish List The Secret Unit That Killed Bin Laden Video: The Empire State Building Turns 80 Girl Possibly Murdered During Roman Invasion Found in England Did Homo Erectus Craft Complex Tools and Weapons? How Conventional Was Charles and Diana’s Wedding? Royal Weddings Gone Bad Slideshow: Remembering Chernobyl Sacred Text Describes Successful Brain Surgery in Ancient Tibet Video: Royal Weddings of the House of Windsor Fossil Supports Theory That Mammal Ears Began As Reptile Jaws CIA Declassifies Invisible Ink Recipes and Other Spy Documents From World War I Study Shows William Was Medieval England’s Most Popular Name 12 Things You May Not Know About Paul Revere Jurassic Dark: Study Suggests Dinosaurs Hunted at Night Civil War Photos Go on Display at the Library of Congress What Did the Vikings Look Like? Memo from 1944 Warned FDR Would Likely Die in Office 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program
Human Ancestors Crafted Advanced Tools Earlier Than Thought Will Hurricane Irene Spawn a Baby Boom? Why Do Hurricanes Have Names? Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Opens in Washington, D.C.: Photos Secret Agents in Hoop Skirts: Women Spies of the Civil War Lager: Patagonian for Beer? 10 Famous Art Heists: Slideshow Did Skin Cream Kill Egypt’s Queen Hatshepsut? Can We Stop Blaming Rats for the Black Death? Albert Brown, Oldest U.S. Survivor of Bataan March, Dies at 105 Headless Hercules Unearthed in Israel People Rumored to Have Survived Their Deaths: Slideshow Corrupt Roman Gladiators Busted by Cops Reflecting on the Berlin Wall, 50 Years After Its Construction Panic on the Streets of London: A History World War II Resistance Heroine, Savior of Thousands, Dies at 98 Assistance Dogs: Learning New Tricks for Centuries U-2 Spy Plane’s Retirement Signals the End of an Era Is Rome’s Pantheon a Giant Sundial? Prehistoric Monsters of the Deep: Slideshow Titanic’s First Victim Gets Headstone At Last The Music Video, Before Music Television Tombs of the Apostles: Slideshow In Search of “Don Quixote” Creator’s Lost Bones Who Were the Knights Templar? Music Legends Who Lived Fast and Died at 27: Slideshow Keeping Cool Through the Ages: Slideshow Remembering the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) In Shining Armor, Medieval Knights May Not Have Shone Introducing Your Inner Neanderthal Ancient Medicines From Shipwreck Shed Light on Life in Antiquity Caligula Statue Seized From Looters Is Unveiled Survivors in a Half Shell: Turtles Withstood Dinosaur Die-Out History at 40 Paces: Legendary Duels Slideshow: When Artifacts Become Astronauts Did Viking Warriors Bare Groovy Teeth? Video: Space Shuttle Milestones Video: The Declaration of Independence Fireworks’ Vibrant History Cleaning of Alamo Reveals Historic Graffiti Slideshow: Orbit-Clogging Space Junk A Wise Man’s Cure: Frankincense and Myrrh Dino Temperature Puzzle: Scientists Get Warmer Famous Gangster Informants in U.S. History Earliest American Art Found in Florida? Gladiator Cries Foul Over Ref’s Blown Call From the Grave Summer Solstice Traditions Hammocks’ Rocking History Slideshow: History’s Best and Worst Dads Eating As the Romans Ate A Taste of Lobster History 95 Years of Flag Day Pentagon Papers Fully Declassified on Famous Leak’s 40th Anniversary Was King Tut Buried in a Hurry? Shroud of Turin: The Work of a Renaissance Artist? Slideshow: History of the Duke and Duchess’ New Digs Civil War Deadlier Than Previously Thought? 125 Years Ago: Nice Day for a White House Wedding She’s Leaving Home: Our Female Ancestors’ Wanderlust Perilous Produce A Tale of Two Guns: Legendary Gangsters’ Revolvers Up for Auction Satellite Images Provide Blueprint for Ancient Egypt Civil War Week on HISTORY How the U.S. President Became the Nation’s Star Athlete From Pope Urban VII to Bloomberg, Four Centuries of Smoking Bans Video: Building the Brooklyn Bridge Researchers Explore the Seafaring Culture of the Maya Did Early Humans Stand Upright to Punch Better? Anchor Away for Blackbeard’s Pirate Flagship Egyptian Princess Needed Bypass Surgery, Mummy Study Shows Apocalypses That Weren’t Archaeologists Bring Mona Lisa’s Top Model to Light Friday the 13th: History of a Phobia Slideshow: Longest-Reigning British Monarchs What Killed Charles Darwin? 10 Surprising Civil War Facts Raising a Toast With George Washington’s Beer The March of the Giant Ants Last World War I Combat Veteran Dies Slideshow: 50th Anniversary of the First American in Space France’s Green Fairy Flies Again Egypt’s Most Wanted: An Antiquities Wish List The Secret Unit That Killed Bin Laden Video: The Empire State Building Turns 80 Girl Possibly Murdered During Roman Invasion Found in England Did Homo Erectus Craft Complex Tools and Weapons? How Conventional Was Charles and Diana’s Wedding? Royal Weddings Gone Bad Slideshow: Remembering Chernobyl Sacred Text Describes Successful Brain Surgery in Ancient Tibet Video: Royal Weddings of the House of Windsor Fossil Supports Theory That Mammal Ears Began As Reptile Jaws CIA Declassifies Invisible Ink Recipes and Other Spy Documents From World War I Study Shows William Was Medieval England’s Most Popular Name 12 Things You May Not Know About Paul Revere Jurassic Dark: Study Suggests Dinosaurs Hunted at Night Civil War Photos Go on Display at the Library of Congress What Did the Vikings Look Like? Memo from 1944 Warned FDR Would Likely Die in Office 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program
