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British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

The DNA Doe Project seeks public help to ID a man found murdered in 1989 near Williamstown, KY, possibly of Eastern European ...

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Online genealogists found that Pope Leo’s paternal grandparents in Chicago were accused of having an “illicit affair” in the ...

The DNA Doe Project said the victim of a gruesome 1989 murder in Kentucky may have descendants living in Indiana. The victim ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

Of the Kiks.adi Clan of Sitka, Ixt’Ik’Eesh has been harvesting herring fish eggs for most of his life. His earliest ...

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