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STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Joshua K. Foreman, an instructor in the Department of Communication and advisor to the student newspaper, The Reflector, has released the latest ...

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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation ...

The Heinz History Center in the Strip District — recently named the best history museum in the country by USA Today for the second year running — is chock full of stunning historical artifacts. But ...

PITTSBURGH-Walk into the exhibit “Pittsburgh’s Hidden History” and you feel like you’ve stumbled into one of the world’s coolest indoor flea markets. Look on a wall and there’s a movie theater lobby ...

I showcase unusual objects discovered hidden inside walls and reveal the fascinating history behind them.

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FISHERS FERRY — When the Susquehanna River runs low near Hoover’s Island, it reveals a carved stone that connects Dale and Betty Jean Reiner to their family’s past, a piece of their heritage etched ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

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