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President of South Korea Park Geun-hye at the Paris COP21, United nation conference on climate change.

Fidel Castro in a Cuban telecast, May 27, 1960.

The man who led Cuba for nearly half a century died on November 25 at the age of 90.

Australia

What’s the difference between an island and a continent anyway?

Carnivorous Venus Fly Traps (Dionaea muscipula) and Sundews (Drosera capensis) Plants secrete digestive enzymes s until the insect is liquified and its soluble contents digested.

It’s a plant-eat-bug world!

Landing of the Pilgrims, by Gisbert, 1898 - 1931, postcard, Detroit publishing company

Archaeologists believe that they have found the location of the original 17th-century Pilgrim village.

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Super Typhoon Haiyan

A visible image of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippine Sea captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite on November 7, 2013.

NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team

Massive and highly destructive storm in the North Pacific Ocean that affected Palau, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China during early November...

Portrait of Solomon Northup printed in his memoir of slavery, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (1853).

9 Mysterious Disappearances of People Other Than Amelia Earhart

Japanese garden, flowers, botanicals, botany, trees, foliage, water, bridge

“The Most Perfect Refreshment”: A Garden Quiz

Kwame Nkrumah, 1962.

Marc and Evelyne Bernheim/Woodfin Camp and Associates

Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation...

Cluster of green ferns. Pteridophytes, plants, greenery, flora, tracheophytes.

Botany Basics: Fact or Fiction?

Ancient Mayan Calendar

Our Days Are Numbered: 7 Crazy Facts About Calendars

The Great Depression Unemployed men queued outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone The storefront sign reads ’Free Soup

5 of the World’s Most-Devastating Financial Crises

Self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1889; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 57.8 cm x 44.5 cm.

Name That Artist

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) near Hanford, Washington, U.S. There are two LIGO installations; the other is near Livingston, Louisiana, U.S.

6 Amazing Facts About Gravitational Waves and LIGO

Tecumseh and his troops (on the right) fought American forces during the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813.

Military History Buff Quiz

Fossil of the plesiosaur Cryptocleidus, a large marine reptile of the Jurassic Period.

Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York

Any of a group of long-necked marine reptiles found as fossils from the Late Triassic Period into the Late Cretaceous Period (215 million...

“Evil is unspectacular and always human
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.”

Various geoengineering proposals designed to increase solar reflectance or capture and store carbon.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

The large-scale manipulation of a specific process central to controlling Earth’s climate for the purpose of obtaining a specific benefit. Global climate...

Advocacy for Animals

The Looming Fight on States’ Rights and Animal Welfare

A leaked memo of talking points prepared for Donald Trump's agricultural advisory committee is a window into the possible agriculture policies of the incoming Trump administration.

Alain Elkann Interviews

Alain has been writing a weekly interview column for the Italian newspaper La Stampa since 1989. His interviews celebrate some of the best known and successful personalities of the present day.

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