New Caledonia

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A Tale of Two Submerged Continents

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Is Australia an Island?

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How a Rejected Block of Marble Became the World’s Most Famous Statue

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7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona

Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?

Calendar showing the month of February

Why Are There Only 28 Days in February?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Island, New Caledonia.

Islands and Archipelagos