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San Francisco Opera Names a New Conductor. She’s Making History.

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San Francisco Opera Names a New Conductor. She’s Making History.

The fast-rising conductor Eun Sun Kim was named the next music director of the San Francisco Opera on Thu ...

The fast-rising conductor Eun Sun Kim was named the next music director of the San Francisco Opera on Thursday, which will make her the first woman to hold the post at an American opera company of maj ...

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Mars rover hopes to grab a piece of history

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Mars rover hopes to grab a piece of history

Image caption Adam Camilletti hopes to win a contract from Esa next year to take the design to the next l ...

Image caption Adam Camilletti hopes to win a contract from Esa next year to take the design to the next level British engineers have begun testing technologies that will be needed to bring samples of ...

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How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History

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How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History

This doesn’t mean there is no joy to be had in more traditional queer art; indeed, joy is the best thing ...

This doesn’t mean there is no joy to be had in more traditional queer art; indeed, joy is the best thing left in it. And joy is what I feel reading Sarah Waters’s novels, starting with “Tipping the Ve ...

December 04, 2019
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America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions

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America’s Dark History of Killing Its Own Troops With Cluster Munitions

The BLU-97 bomblets at As Salman were the latest offering in roughly 60 years of cluster-munition evoluti ...

The BLU-97 bomblets at As Salman were the latest offering in roughly 60 years of cluster-munition evolution, a process started by German arms designers before World War II. In 1932, Luftwaffe munition ...

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Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet

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Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet

In the bright open kitchen at Lost Creek Farm, jars of seeds line one wall, each labeled in capital lette ...

In the bright open kitchen at Lost Creek Farm, jars of seeds line one wall, each labeled in capital letters, a tapestry of state lineage. Coal Camp beans are brown and smooth, like river pebbles. Bloo ...

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How Charlottesville’s Echoes Forced New Zealand to Confront Its History

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How Charlottesville’s Echoes Forced New Zealand to Confront Its History

HAMILTON, New Zealand — An 80-year-old Maori man walked up to a statue of a colonial-era British naval co ...

HAMILTON, New Zealand — An 80-year-old Maori man walked up to a statue of a colonial-era British naval commander one winter morning in 2018, a can of paint and a claw hammer in his hands. “The red pai ...

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Robert K. Massie, Narrator of Russian History, Is Dead at 90

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Robert K. Massie, Narrator of Russian History, Is Dead at 90

Robert Kinloch Massie III was born in Versailles, Ky., on Jan. 5, 1929. His father, Robert Jr., was an ed ...

Robert Kinloch Massie III was born in Versailles, Ky., on Jan. 5, 1929. His father, Robert Jr., was an educator and his mother, Molly (Kimball) Massie, was a progressive activist. He grew up in Versai ...

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Huge Amazon Wildfires Endanger Our History As Well As Our Air, Archaeologists Say

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Huge Amazon Wildfires Endanger Our History As Well As Our Air, Archaeologists Say

Cristiana Barreto says deforestation threatens to erase evidence of huge, dispersed civilizations, includ ...

Cristiana Barreto says deforestation threatens to erase evidence of huge, dispersed civilizations, including rock art, ceremonial earthworks and waterways. Source link ...

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Beloved Berlin Currywurst Stand Delivers a Bite of History

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Beloved Berlin Currywurst Stand Delivers a Bite of History

BERLIN — The night the Berlin Wall fell, 30 years ago this month, Waltraud Ziervogel’s husband, Kurt, cam ...

BERLIN — The night the Berlin Wall fell, 30 years ago this month, Waltraud Ziervogel’s husband, Kurt, came home with the news and urged his wife to join him in the joyous celebrations and a stroll thr ...

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Best Buy’s stock history says surge can extend through holidays

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Best Buy’s stock history says surge can extend through holidays

Best Buy got a big jump ahead of Black Friday, and the start of the holiday shopping season may not be th ...

Best Buy got a big jump ahead of Black Friday, and the start of the holiday shopping season may not be the only tailwind that keeps shares of the electronics retailer moving higher.Best Buy spiked by ...

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