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Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato
Ars Technica· 6 days agoHistorical accounts vary about how the Greek philosopher Plato died: in bed while listening to a...
Austrian court defers ruling on Fritzl move to regular prison, lawyer says
Reuters· 1 day agoAn Austrian court on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether the country's most infamous living...
Exhibit on emancipation at Williams College powerful, necessary
Albany Times Union· 2 days agoThe show statement explains: “Seven of today’s leading Black artists … were selected to make visible...
Lincoln’s Civil War order to block Confederate ports donated to Illinois by governor and first lady
St. Louis Post-Dispatch· 21 hours agoThe document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union’s military response to the launch of...
Campus protests multiply as demonstrators breach barriers at UCLA | The Excerpt
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSo it goes all the way back to a point in history that rarely, if ever, gets talked about in standard history classes. And then it goes into freedom and enslavement and resistance ...
Transformers: Guide to Alpha Trion, the Creator of Optimus Prime
CBR.com· 7 days agoThe basics of the Transformers franchise are well-known, though there's a lot of mythology and lore...
Putin on brink as Russian rebels target Kremlin assassinations in new campaign
Daily Express· 3 days agoThe Kremlin has been rocked by major political killings since the outbreak of hostilities with...
This Passover, college campuses like mine are caught in a very narrow place
The Forward· 4 days agoPassover, of course, is the holiday of freedom and memory, when we Jews celebrate our exodus from...
A Philadelphia Passover Seder, 100 years after the first
Philly.com· 5 days agoJulia and Leon Obermayer hosted their first seder in Philadelphia in 1924, soon after they were...
Inside the portrait-filled corridors of New York's Capitol
Albany Times Union· 2 days agoMost people in the Capital Region know about the New York State Museum, located on the south end of...