On this day in history, December 6, 1884, Washington Monument completed 39 years after construction began
The Washington Monument is built of 36,000 stones, including marble from Maryland and granite from several different New ...
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On this day in history, October 9, 1888, the Washington Monument opens to the public
Built in two phases in 1848 and 1884 and subsequently dedicated in 1885, the Washington Monument — a marble-faced granite obelisk that honors the first U.S. president, George Washington ...
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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
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Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down?
"So this week it's Robert E Lee," he said on Tuesday of the rebel general's monument that ... George Washington was a slaveholder. So might the stone obelisk dedicated to the father of the nation ...
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Where did COVID-19 come from?
As the U.S. marks one year since its first coronavirus case, questions remain about the origin of the virus that causes the disease. The coronavirus that conquered the world came from a thumb ...
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Where did dinosaurs come from?
But despite their long evolutionary history, the origin of dinosaurs remains shrouded in mystery. When did dinosaurs evolve, and what did the first ones look like? The earliest definitive dinosaur is ...
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What Is The ‘Temu Pig Shirt’? And Where Did The Meme Come From?
If you’ve been on Twitter/X over the weekend, you may have seen a strange sight: a shirt of a smiling, overweight pig enjoying a sauna session. No, this wasn’t a hallucination, it was the ...
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Did you skip college this fall because of the FAFSA? We want to hear from you.
Are you a recent high school graduate who did not enroll in college this fall ... I’m a national higher education reporter at The Washington Post. I’d like to speak with recent high school ...
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Five states and Washington, DC, will end early voting on Sunday
Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Washington, D.C., have their final day of early in-person voting on Sunday as the nation sits just two days away from Election Day.
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Denzel Washington had fun filming ‘Gladiator II’: ‘Come for blood, violence and beheadings’
Denzel Washington: “I play an ex-gladiator in the new ‘Gladiator II.’ He wants to be the emperor and to control the Roman Empire. Watching characters getting beaten up was fun. So ...