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In the mid 2000s, a small patch of ground in the middle of a country torn apart by the marauding violence of warring clans and religions...

In 1870, botany in the state of Maine was an underdeveloped and precarious thing. In the 1670s, John Josselyn had published a brace of...

One of the greatest revolutions of the Twentieth Century in the relief of the intense pains of childbirth came under the most unassuming...

In 1991, a paper appeared in the Archives of General Psychology that held out the promise, at long last, of an effective treatment for...

In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese armed forces fanned out across the Pacific, taking in quick succession...