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The authors are especially interested in a subgroup, the wealthy elite, with only 6,000 members—0.01% of the British ...

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On May 13, 2024, the Ghanaian capital of Accra witnessed an emotional homecoming as Stevie Wonder, an iconic American ...

Woolf would be pleasantly surprised that today, women having a whole house of their own is not only commonplace but a key ...

The early 19th-century cemeteries were discovered early ... “There’s evidence they were burying people in coffins at the potter’s field, which you don’t always find,” she added.

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