King Herod's most ambitious project was Herodium, a fortified palace on top of a hill in the Judean desert.…
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In December 1999, NASA launched the Terra satellite to collect climate data. It would be the first spacecraft in a…
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Bloomberg News asked foreign policy analysts, military experts and economists to identify the possible worst-case scenarios in 2015. Potential future crises include armed conflict in the South China Sea, the collapse of Nigeria and political upheaval in Saudi Arabia prompted by the death of 90-year-old King Abdullah.
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Recently declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive reveal that the Kennedy and Johnson…
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