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12 offbeat NC museums that dive into the state’s quirky history, from Bigfoot to Andy Griffith
The News & Observer· 3 hours agoHere are a dozen offbeat museums worth a side trip during your summer travels, because they also help tell the story of North Carolina. Sift for relics in the sand pit, spoils of nearby phosphate mining.
Buried forest in Manitowoc County was first uncovered in 1907. Its discovery changed views on age of...
Herald Times Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe two recently discovered relic fragments of wood are housed at the Weis Earth Science Museum....
OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever Starts New AI Firm, Safe Superintelligence
PYMNTS.com· 18 hours agoOpenAI’s former science chief/co-founder is launching his own artificial intelligence (AI) company....
Chinese city discovers 1,800-year-old tombs while trying to expand a park
South China Morning Post· 6 days agoThe tombs date back to the Western Han dynasty (202BC-9AD), and the untouched tomb was “particularly...
50 years of The Queen: Behind the Bellefonte bed and breakfast’s restoration journey
State College Centre Daily Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThen, the work really began. The couple enrolled in classes at the local technical school, now the...
Deep sea treasures recovered from 2 Ming dynasty shipwrecks in South China Sea
South China Morning Post· 6 days agoAt the No. 1 shipwreck, 890 objects were recovered – including porcelain, pottery and copper coins –...
Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens and Berlin's Olympiastadion: the complicated history of Euro 2024 final...
New York Times· 7 days agoThe showpiece final of this summer’s European Championship, likely to attract a worldwide television audience in excess of 300 million people, will be played on July 14 at the Olympiastadion ...
Ming dynasty shipwrecks hide a treasure trove of artifacts in the South China Sea, excavation...
LiveScience· 2 days agoDivers have retrieved more than 900 artifacts from two centuries-old shipwrecks hiding in the depths...
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Washington Times-Herald· 2 days agoPresident Joe Biden has ordered an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after the Democratic ...
What dead flowers tell us about the future of life on Earth | Texarkana Gazette
Texarkana Gazette· 6 days agoThe blossom, called a pink lady's slipper, was plucked nearly nine decades ago - on May 16, 1936 -...