After centuries of Akkadian conquest and Gutian occupation, a final Sumerian empire rose from the ruins of Mesopotamia, only to be swept away forever by new waves of invaders from beyond the civilized ...

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Jon Meacham, author of “American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union,” shares what his birthday wish is for America.

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You can tell a lot about a person from what fiction they keep on their nightstand. Once a year, we make the staff, ...

A sundial specifically designed to show the word "Solstice" for the summer and winter solstice in Valbonne Sophia Antipolis, France. NASA The 2026 summer solstice will occur Sunday, June 21, at 4:24 ...

The nation’s big holiday is here, and would it harm anyone to call it by its proper name: Independence Day? Of course not. What’s more, it might give us a real appreciation of what the holiday is all ...

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Trump's rally kicking off the Great American State Fair was planned as a concert series until most musicians dropped out. The ...

Across two floors, Báez invites us to contemplate the slippage from order to collapse, as entropy drives us ever closer to the state of chaos that existed before creation.