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Lily Dale is home to about 40 mediums who connect thousands of spiritual seekers with their deceased loved ones ...

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As part of the Indigenous Voices of the Americas program at the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a group of participants ...

Two nearly identical artworks, at least one of them by the renowned Dutch master, hang side-by-side for the first time in ...

Paleontologists describe four new species of extinct ancestral penguins that help shed light on how the iconic birds evolved ...

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