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A team of researchers has rediscovered a frog species which has not been seen in more than 130 years. First described in 1902, Alsodes vittatus had evaded detection since then, despite multiple search ...

The puzzles that greeted Hou-Mei Sung when she arrived at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2002 as the first curator of its newly established Asian Art department were not unusual for a museum chartered ...

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” — Louise Erdrich On Saturday, Sept.

WILLIAMSBURG — Nearly 95 years ago, brick kilns were discovered adjacent to William & Mary’s Sir Christopher Wren building but subsequently were lost to history. One of the kilns, recently ...