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Fire destroyed the historic Quebec City Armory Friday night. The building contained what is believed to have been the largest suspended wood ceiling in Canada.

April 07, 2008
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Sculptures recently discovered in Guatemala, including one that may depict the first Maya king, may be a clue to the birth of the Maya culture, archaeologists say.

April 07, 2008
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Medieval-era skulls unearthed from the Tower of London represent the oldest confirmed Barbary lions, a subspecies that has died out in the wild, DNA reveals.

April 4, 2008
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Though bans and taxes on plastic bags remain controversial, many countries and companies are taking to reusable totes to improve their images and help protect the environment.

April 4, 2008
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Forty years after Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot, Jesse Jackson and another witness to the assassination return to the Tennessee scene and remember the event.

April 4, 2008
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An ancient Aztec system of arithmetic, including symbols of hearts, hands, and arrows, has been deciphered, revealing a painfully meticulous tax code perhaps familiar to many today.

April 3, 2008
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The first dig in the inner circle in 44 years aims to find a specific date for Stonehenge's founding.

April 2, 2008
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In the small hilltop town of Torrita di Siena, they race a horse of a different color.

April 01, 2008
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The appearance of developing countries with no history of whaling at meetings of the International Whaling Commission has anti-whalers crying foul at Japan's alleged attempts to buy pro-whaling votes.

April 1, 2008
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Scientists have unearthed a pristinely preserved statue of Queen Tiye—the favorite wife of pharaoh Amenhotep III—in ancient Egypt's largest funerary complex.

March 31, 2008
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A nine-bead necklace discovered in Peru is the oldest known gold artifact in the Americas, according to archaeologists.

March 31, 2008
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A 12-foot-tall (3.6-meter-tall) colossus of Queen Tiye—the influential main wife of noted pharaoh Amenhotep III—has been unearthed at a sprawling temple complex in Luxor.

March 31, 2008
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"It's ghostly. It's magic, " said an expert who heard the 1860 French recording of a human voice. The audio predates Edison's recording by 17 years.

March 31, 2008
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Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.

March 31, 2008
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A temple thought to have once housed idols and mummies has been unearthed near an ancient Inca site in Cusco, Peru, scientists say.

March 31, 2008

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