'A Thousand Blows': Who were the Forty Elephants gang and their thief 'queen' Mary Carr?
They're the Forty Elephants, a real gang led by the charismatic Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who pilfer the prized possessions ...
Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia
Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indigenous group living in ...
A Boneyard Along the Thames River Reveals London’s Ancient Burials
Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.
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"Mahko's Legacy: The Bedonkohe Leader Who Raised Mangas Coloradas"
On January 18, 1863, U.S. Army troops killed this tall, imposing leader after torturing him at Fort McLane. His body was dismembered, and his skull was sent to the Smithsonian for phrenology. The ...
Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas. Their story waits to be told.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.
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The Richest People in the World as 2024 Ends
The other names rounding out the top 10 richest people in the world at the end of 2024, per Forbes' real-time list, are Larry Page, cofounder of Google ($158.8 billion), fellow Google cofounder ...