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After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France. Baby Khroma, one of the oldest intact mammoths ever found, went on display in a French museum Friday — after ...
Mexican gangs take over US public lands for pot, smuggle immigrants to grow crops Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants ...
Ukrainian museum says portrait of Venetian Doge in its collection is Titian's workThe director of a Ukrainian museum claimed Tuesday that a portrait of a Venetian Doge in its collection is a work of Titian, even as an expert warned that art ...
NC Museum of Art 'tunnels' through to new building, uses unusual elements to move worksThe North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is on the move. And it's taking about 750 works of art with it.The museum is in the process of ...
Gettysburg park chief being transferred because he used work computer to view sexual imagesThe superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park told a newspaper he is being reassigned because U.S. Interior Department investigators discovered that he used his federal computer to view sexually ...
Vietnam memorial fund takes over care of 13 acres of weed-infested National MallFrustrated with poor maintenance by the federal government, the group that built the Vietnam War memorial is aiming to improve its little corner of the National Mall by taking over ...
National Mall neglected after Congress spends extra money on projects back homeCrumbling sidewalks near the Jefferson Memorial are sinking into the Tidal Basin. "The Obama administration recently steered $55 million in economic stimulus money toward repairs, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says ...
Galapagos' rosy lizard declared new species after 5 million yearsHard to believe a giant, pink lizard could be overlooked for almost two centuries.Charles Darwin missed it during his 1835 study of the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution. Some ...
Minor edits.AP Photo NYMA201, NYMA202, NYMA203By ULA ILNYTZKYAssociated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature.But Leeds will never step foot on a campus ...
Antiquities Chief Says Egypt Will Fight for Nefertiti Bust Germany Says Too Fragile to TravelEgypt's antiquities chief says if persuasion doesn't work, he will fight for an ancient bust of Nefertiti that a Berlin museum maintains is too fragile to ever travel. ...
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