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Young woman meditating in nature. About 20 years old, Caucasian female. dreadlocks

Lifestyles & Social Issues

What Is Cultural Appropriation?

El Morro fort in old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, West Indies.

Politics, Law & Government

Why Is Puerto Rico’s Political Status So Complicated?

High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center (internment camp, Japanese-Americans), near Lone Pine, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943.

What Was Life Like in Japanese American Internment Camps?

William of Ockham, circa 1280 - 10.4.1349, English theologist and philosopher, portrait, later portrayal,

Philosophy & Religion

Is Occam’s Razor Valid?

Juneteenth Parade at Malcolm X Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 22, 2019. (emancipation, slavery)

What Is the History of Juneteenth?

Lisa Taylor receives a COVID-19 vaccination from RN Jose Muniz as she takes part in a vaccine study at Research Centers of America, August 07, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida. Research Centers of America is currently conducting COVID-19 vaccine trials, impleme

Health & Medicine

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Full-length portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated at table with books and top hat, facing right, ca. 1869-1877.

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Group of colorful apartments on Caminito Street, La Boca, Buenos Aries, Argentina.

Geography & Travel

How Do Countries Choose Their Capital Cities?

Red blood cells in vein, circulatory system

What Was the Science Behind Medical Bloodletting?

Coronavirus - Disinfection workers wearing masks spray anti-septic solution at the Incheon International Airport on January 27, 2020 in Incheon, South Korea. COVID-19 Epidemic pandemic

Health & Medicine

Questions About COVID-19 Answered

U.S. Women's National Soccer Team celebrates scoring goal during friendly game against Mexico as preparation for 2019 Women's World Cup in Harrison, NJ. USA won 3 - 0

Sports & Recreation

Why Do Athletes Wear Numbered Jerseys?

Ill young black (african american) woman with cold, lying in bed and holding a thermometer in her mouth.

Health & Medicine

How Do the Symptoms of COVID-19 Differ from Those of Cold and Flu?

Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth president of the United States, date provided c. 1905 - 1945. (Warren Harding, presidents)

What Did It Look Like for a U.S. President to Condemn Racism in 1921?

Shoppers crowd London's Oxford Street (main retail district) on 'Black Friday' discount day in the lead up to Christmas

Health & Medicine

What Is a Superspreader Event?

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (purple) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. (coronavirus) Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF)...

Health & Medicine

What Is a Second Wave of a Pandemic, and Could It Happen for COVID-19?

Miners of the Union Pacific Railroad Company shooting at crowd of fleeing Chinese miners working for the Union Pacific. The massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming

What Happened at the Rock Springs Massacre?

Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Entertainment & Pop Culture

What Are Some Notable Examples of Film Adaptations ofRomeo and Juliet?

The tomb of Saint Nicholas in the crypt of the Basilica di San Nicola, Bari, Apulia, Italy

Philosophy & Religion

Do the Relics of Saint Nicholas Really Emit a Holy Substance?

Frederick Douglass with his second wife Helen Pitts Douglass (sitting) and sister-in-law, Eva Pitts (standing).

Why Was Frederick Douglass’s Marriage to Helen Pitts Controversial?

Close-up of a blue toned calendar page.

Did a Calendar Change Cause Riots in England?

The Colossus of Rhodes is often depicted as straddling the harbor entrance, but this would have been technically impossible. The statue of the sun god Helios instead stood upright next to the harbor. Seven Wonders of the World.

Why Have There Been Plans to Build a New Colossus of Rhodes?

Mongoose. Banded mongoose. Mungos mungo. Close-up of a banded mongoose.

Do Mongooses Make Good Pets?

Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, 1935. (psychoanalysis)

Health & Medicine

Is the Oedipus Complex Real?

Group of Women Happiness Cheerful Concept

Lifestyles & Social Issues

What Is Intersectionality?

Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) swimming on the surface of a creek. Water Australia mammal monotreme

Why Is the Platypus a Mammal?

Murder victim Emmett Till, undated photo. (African-Americans, civil rights)

How Did the World Learn About Emmett Till’s Murder?

Encyclopaedia Britannica First Edition: Volume 1, Plate XXXVIII, Figure 2, Ark, Ark of the Covenant, a small chest, coffer, contains Aaron's rod, manna pot, tables of covenant, Schechinah, Divine Presence, oracle, shittim-wood, acacia tree

Philosophy & Religion

Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?

Frederick Douglass, between 1880 and 1890; photo by George Kendall Warren.

Politics, Law & Government

What Was Frederick Douglass’s Position on Women’s Rights?

San Francisco, California/USA-1/18/20: Womens March at Civic Center marching with signs of political protest regarding equality also embracing 2020 presidential candidates and celebrating equality

Politics, Law & Government

How Does the U.S. Government Define the Difference Between a Protest and a Riot?

April 11, 2019 - Minneapolis, MN: Female Caucasian hand holds up a Dr. Dre The Chronic vinyl record album while shopping in a retail store, a classic retro 90s gangster rap album

Entertainment & Pop Culture

What Was Dr. Dre’s Role in Creating the Subgenre of G-Funk?

Man with a headache

Health & Medicine

How Many People Actually Got Lobotomized?

January 21, 2019: Superbowl LIII will be played at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday, February 3, 2019 against the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.

Sports & Recreation

What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Lifestyles & Social Issues

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

American novelist and social critic Sinclair Lewis, circa 1905-45. First American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1930.

Is Sinclair Lewis’s Most Famous Work Any Good?

Mother and juvenile chimpanzees on a tree branch. Taken in the wild in Africa.

Are Chimpanzees Cannibals?

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-BarthAlemy in French) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during th

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