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  Capital, Punished

  2021-06-10

  Located 350 km (217 miles) southeast of Puerto Rico, the British island of Montserrat is sometimes called 'The Emeral...
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  A Taste of Italy

  2021-05-14

  In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover fro...
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  Pushing the Envelope

  2021-04-14

  As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life insurance policies w...
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  The Comforts of the Throne

  2021-03-18

  In the days when hunting was a more common pursuit than it is today, those involved in the job cultivated a taxonomy...
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  The Anticipated Future of the Moon

  2021-02-15

  When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day was approximately...
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  A Grubby Niche

  2021-02-01

  It is down to geological and evolutionary happenstance that there are no monkeys on the island of Madagascar: a fact...
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  Haydn and Seek

  2021-01-25

  It can be tough to give the boss a hint, but it was even more difficult back in the days of domestic servitude when t...
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  It Makes One's Head Swim

  2021-01-20

  On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt--at that time the Prime Minister of Australia--decided to go for a swim. He and his...
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  Buzzing on the Green

  2021-01-12

  Popeye the Sailor is well known for his penchant for spinach, and the popularity of the character led to generations...
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  A Day on Venus

  2020-12-16

  Compared to Earth, our astronomical next-door neighbor Venus is 95 percent as large, 28 percent closer to the sun, an...