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After centuries of exploration, scholars continue to discover new insights into the world of the pharaohs.
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Warsaw Uprising (Featured Article)
Trapped between belligerent forces many times its size, the Polish Home Army rose up on August 1, 1944, in a heroic but ultimately vain attempt to liberate Warsaw ahead of the advancing Red Army.

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Canadian literature (Featured Article)
This body of work, written in French and English, reflects the country's bilingual heritage.
African dance (Featured Article)
This traditional art form occupies an important religious and social position within African societies.
Chinese pottery (Featured Article)
These clay vessels assumed great artistic and ceremonial importance, and greatly influenced the development of European porcelain.

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Venice (Featured City)
This island city, which is one of the world's oldest cultural centres, is today recognized as part of the artistic and architectural patrimony of all humanity and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Carlsbad Caverns (Featured Landmark)
Located in the Chihuahuan Desert in southeastern New Mexico, U.S., this park covers a labyrinth of caves and has a surface area that acts as a sanctuary for wildlife.
Fiji (Featured Country)
Consisting of some 300 islands and 540 islets, this archipelago and country has a tropical oceanic climate and a varying topography that includes mountains and dry grasslands.

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Eris
Five years ago this week, scientists announced the discovery of this distant body of the solar system, nicknamed “Xena” and also briefly called the “10th planet,” which had been identified in images taken in 2003.
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Bioinformatics (Featured Article)
Pennsylvania State University biochemist and molecular biologist Arthur Lesk explores the hybrid science that links biological data with techniques for information storage and analysis to support multiple areas of research.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (Featured Biography)
The English chemist and Nobelist discovered the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin and was a member of the Order of Merit, Britain’s highest honour for achievement in science, the arts, and public life.
Ecology (Featured Article)
The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment, described by German zoologist Ernst Haeckelas oekologie, brings together many areas of research, from evolutionary ecology to biogeography.

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