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FILE - In this Monday, June 3, 2019, file photo, Pride flags and colors display on the Stonewall Inn bar, marking the site of 1969 riots that followed a police raid of the bar's gay patrons, in New York. A visitor center dedicated to telling the story of LGBTQ rights movement will open next door to the Stonewall Inn. Organizers say the groundbreaking for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood will take place Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Stonewall Visitor Center Will Be Dedicated to LGBTQ History
  • 22 June 2022
A visitor center dedicated to telling the story of the LGBTQ rights movement will open...
Stonewall Visitor Center Will Be Dedicated to LGBTQ History
Dawn breaks behind the stones during the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. After two years of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stonehenge reopened Monday for the Summer Solstice celebrations. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Crowds Mark Summer Solstice at Ancient Stonehenge Monument
  • 21 June 2022
Thousands of druids, pagans and New Age revelers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on...
Crowds Mark Summer Solstice at Ancient Stonehenge Monument
FILE - Author Margaret Atwood attends the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York on Nov. 11, 2019. On Monday night, during PEN America’s annual gala, Atwood and Penguin Random House announced that a one-off, unburnable edition of “The Handmaid’s Tale” would be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
‘Unburnable’ Copy of Handmaid’s Tale Auctioned for $130,000
  • 8 June 2022
Proceeds will be donated to PEN America, which advocates for free expression worldwide.
‘Unburnable’ Copy of Handmaid’s Tale Auctioned for $130,000
Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, are displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Egypt Displays Trove of Newly Discovered Ancient Artifacts
  • 1 June 2022
Egypt displayed a trove of ancient artifacts dating back 2,500 years that the country's antiquities...
Egypt Displays Trove of Newly Discovered Ancient Artifacts
Members of the team assessing the sunken wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, are shown looking at timbers from the schooner near Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The ship was scuttled after arriving on the Gulf Coast more than 160 years ago. (AP Photo/Daniel Fiore, Alabama Historical Commission)
Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key for Kin of Enslaved Africans
  • 13 May 2022
Keys to the past and the future of a community descended from enslaved Africans lie...
Alabama Shipwreck Holds Key for Kin of Enslaved Africans
Cecilia Reyes, of the Chicago Tribune, reacts as she and Madison Hopkins of the Better Government Association, not pictured, win the Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting at the Chicago Tribune's Freedom Center in Chicago, Monday, May 9, 2022. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP)
Pulitzer Prizes Award Washington Post for Jan. 6 Coverage
  • 9 May 2022
The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage...
Pulitzer Prizes Award Washington Post for Jan. 6 Coverage
FILE - Traffic passes a mural of the slave ship Clotilda along Africatown Boulevard, in Mobile, Ala., May 30, 2019. Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile in May 2022 to assess the sunken remains of the Clotilda, which was the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to the United States more than 160 years earlier. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill, File)
Researchers Returning for Assessment of Last US Slave Ship
  • 2 May 2022
Researchers are returning to the Alabama coast near Mobile to assess the sunken remains of...
Researchers Returning for Assessment of Last US Slave Ship
A parade goer yells during the St. Patrick's Day Parade along South Columbus Drive, Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)
St. Patrick’s Day Parades Turn Pandemic Blues Irish Green
  • 17 March 2022
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations across the country are back after a two-year hiatus, including the...
St. Patrick’s Day Parades Turn Pandemic Blues Irish Green
A state of Alaska flag flies outside the Atwood Building in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, March 11, 2022. The state has issued a corrected birth certificate for Benny Benson, the teenager who won a design contest for the flag in 1927, meaning he was 14 and not 13 when came up with the design of the Big Dipper and the North Star on a simple field of blue. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
Investigation Finds That Alaska Flag Designer Was 14, Not 13
  • 11 March 2022
The state of Alaska has issued a corrected birth certificate for the teenage designer of...
Investigation Finds That Alaska Flag Designer Was 14, Not 13
Workers move the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis in the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum as part of safety preparations in the event of an attack in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Friday, March 4, 2022. The doors of the museum have been closed since Russia’s war on Ukraine began on Feb. 24, and heritage sites across the country face danger as the fighting continues. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
At Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum, a Race to Protect Heritage
  • 7 March 2022
The director of Ukraine's largest art museum walked its hallways, supervising as staff packed away...
At Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum, a Race to Protect Heritage
FILE - The Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is seen in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. As the capital braces for a Russian attack in 2022, the spiritual heart of Ukraine could be at risk. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Kyiv Shrines, Memorials with Powerful Symbolic Value at Risk
  • 3 March 2022
Kyiv, bracing for a potentially catastrophic Russian attack, is the spiritual heart of Ukraine.
Kyiv Shrines, Memorials with Powerful Symbolic Value at Risk
The terracotta Sarcophagus of the Spouses is displayed in Rome's National Etruscan Museum, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. On Valentine Day museum's director, Valentino Nizzo unveiled a project to insulate the famous terracotta couple from the vibration coming from the intense traffic surrounding the museum that is endangering the fragile material with which the embracing couple is molded. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
2,500-Year-Old Terracotta Gets Valentine Day’s Love in Italy
  • 14 February 2022
A pair of terracotta lovers caught in a tender embrace for 2,500 years are getting...
2,500-Year-Old Terracotta Gets Valentine Day’s Love in Italy
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