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04.15.19

Fire Ravages Historic Notre-Dame Cathedral

New Orleans Apologizes for 1891 Lynching of Italian-Americans

What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us

When California Went to War Over Eggs

Bonn Library Recovers More Than 600 Books Looted After World War II

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Nepalese Expedition Seeks to Find Out if an Earthquake Shrunk Mount Everest

The Controversy Over the Planned Le Corbusier Museum

Three Endangered Right Whale Calves Spotted in New England Waters

Inside Professor Nanayakkara’s Futuristic Augmented Human Lab

Thanks to Facial Reconstruction, You Can Now Look Into the Eyes of a Neolithic Dog

On this day in 1452, Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy. Read how a pair of Florence historians were able to shed some light on the enigmatic genius, revealing Leonardo’s genealogy, 35 living descendants and newly discovered burial grounds for his family.

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