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Heavy Wool on Pompeii Victims Found in New Analysis as Eruption-Date Dispute Continues

The findings add detail to what people wore during Vesuvius’s destruction without resolving the season of the catastrophe.

Wright Brothers’ First Flight Turns 122 as Kill Devil Hills Hosts Free Events and Student Aircraft Unveiling

Hiroshima Confirms First DNA Identification of an A‑Bomb Victim, Naming 13-Year-Old Hatsue Kajiyama

Rare 'Good Shepherd' Fresco Unearthed in 3rd-Century Tomb Near Iznik

Remains of WWII Medal of Honor Recipient Capt. Willibald C. Bianchi Identified by DPAA

Chabad Communities Mark 19 Kislev, the Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism

Declassified Navy Records Illuminate Flight 19, 80 Years After the Disappearance

Dom Pérignon 1961 Magnum From Charles and Diana’s Wedding to Be Auctioned December 11

D.B. Cooper Case Marks Anniversary as Newsletter Teases New Suspect Theory

Emmett Till Interpretive Center Buys Mississippi Barn, Plans Public Memorial by 2030

Isidor Straus’s Titanic Gold Watch Sells for £1.78 Million, Setting Auction Record

62 Years On, JFK Assassination Marked With Archival Photos and Retrospectives

Visitors Accused of Tearing Down 500-Year-Old Ardvreck Castle Wall for Photos

Thirty Years After Dayton, Bosnia’s Peace Holds as Reform Stagnates

U.S. Releases 4,624 Pages of Declassified Amelia Earhart Files With Final Radio Logs and 1937 Search Report

Gettysburg Address Anniversary Marked by Presidential Message and Retrospectives

Putin Signs Law Adding April 9 to Russia’s Days of Military Glory for the Capture of Königsberg

Rabbi Baruch Shalom Kahan, 91, Dies, Noted Preserver of Early Rebbe Talks

U.S. Releases First Declassified Amelia Earhart Files Under Trump Order

Assam Clears Circulation of Long-Withheld Nellie Massacre Report to MLAs on Nov. 25