During his groundbreaking papacy, Pope Francis inspired the masses as he challenged the traditions and standards of the ...

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S’mores went by many names in their 100-year history—from “Somemores” to ... Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., the national organization, has even released several commercial versions, with ...

In the summer of 1977, New York City was burning. A 25-hour blackout, triggered by lightning striking key transmission lines, led to widespread looting, riots, and more than a thousand fires. That ...

“As we pulled into Vietnam everybody was given their magazine with live ammunition ... Documentary makers from the History Channel and the National Geographic have accessed the collection ...

The remains of two children, perhaps a boy and a girl, rest beside each other at a mass burial site of Pampa la Cruz on the arid coast of northern Peru. They are among the 269 children who were ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Miller brothers ... The researchers and the impetus came from the Natural History Museum of Utah and the U.S. Bureau ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps ... rex at a natural history museum: impossibly huge, pinned and braced at great expense—an extinct ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The blue light of ... have been zealously collected throughout history by Assyrian rulers, Viking chiefs, Russian ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. One early Saturday ... Meanwhile its economic history is one of endless boom-and-bust cycles. Though this is common ...

This story appears in the April 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The wreck sleeps ... rex at a natural history museum: impossibly huge, pinned and braced at great expense—an extinct ...