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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
You Can’t Trust Elites. Just Ask A 500-Year-Old German Peasant.
In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...
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Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
Mr. Robbins’s books were the perfect accompaniment to acid trips, Grateful Dead shows and weekend yoga retreats, long before those things became middle-class and mainstream. Though he kept ...
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Maketū Beach tragedy: Man washes up dead on the shoreline
A person has died on the northern end of Maketū Beach in the Bay of Plenty this afternoon. Emergency services were advised just after 4pm today that an unresponsive male had washed up on the ...
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Real estate broker found dead near Queens highway was missing for weeks, loved ones say
The man found dead on the side of a Queens highway with his hands tied earlier this week was a real estate broker who had been missing since early January, according to interviews with his family ...
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Police investigating after man and woman found dead on Gold Coast
Two people have been found dead on the Gold Coast, prompting police to launch an investigation. Paramedics were called to a gated community on Great Hall Drive at Miami just after 4pm, where the ...
The Boston Globe5d
Boston woman charged with killing man who was found dead on houseboat
A Boston woman has been charged with killing a man who was found with multiple stab wounds on a houseboat in Charlestown last weekend, police said. Police were conducting a welfare check at the ...
‘The Traitor of Arnhem’ Review: Mole in the Market Garden
An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...
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One dead in Henry County crash
HENRY COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa State Patrol said one person is dead after a crash in Henry County. Police said a pickup truck was traveling east on Highway 78 around 12:40 Saturday morning when ...
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Restitution project genealogists track down rightful heirs of Nazi-looted books
The project has come to the aid of Leibl Rosenberg, an official representative of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, Germany, ...
Radio Times2d
How to watch The Walking Dead in order: Every series and spin-off
Most recently, creator Robert Kirkman, who built a comic book empire out of The Walking Dead, opened up to RadioTimes.com about his approach to the show – and the key mistake he made.
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The Book of Mormon Tickets
Latecomers are seated at the discretion of management. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary ...