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Your guests can celebrate surrounded by some of the most remarkable objects in our collection including moon rock, precious metals and fluorescent minerals.

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As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, an activist said, “We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman ...

Gerrymandering is proliferating in states across the U.S. Republicans and Democrats alike have been redrawing voting ...

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Just in time for this year's Earth Day (22 April), we have a reminder of how the world looks. The most recent photo of ...

The Mayflower Compact changed the course of history by paving the road to democracy and self-governance in America.

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Hundreds of volunteers gathered in downtown Orlando for the third annual City District Earth Day Cleanup, removing trash to ...