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For more than a century, people in Africatown insisted that the last slave ship ever to reach the United States hadn’t vanished—it was just hiding. The river knew where it was, the elders knew where it had been, and the rest of the country mostly shrugged. Then, in 2019, archaeologists finally caught up with the story that locals had been telling all along.

Discover the rich history, traditions, and survival skills of the Inuit people in this engaging, easy-to-read story that explores their culture, hunting practices, family life, clothing, and resilience in the Arctic.

Before we dive into the chaos, picture this: you booked a great hotel deal through a third-party site, felt like a bargain-hunting genius, and then—disaster. Your dates are wrong, your room type isn’t available or maybe the system thinks you don’t exist at all. You call the website…they blame the hotel. You call the hotel…they blame the website. And somewhere along the way, you realize you’ve entered the hospitality version of a ping-pong match, except you’re the ball.

Some cities are all hustle, headlights, and high-rises. Others still have that, but with a twist—a whole lot of grass, trees, and trails sneaking in between the buildings. Green space isn’t just pretty scenery; it cools neighborhoods, soaks up stormwater, gives wildlife a fighting chance, and hands humans somewhere to breathe that isn’t a parking lot.

Archaeologists have dug up a rare hoard of copper coins from the final stages of Jewish resistance against Roman rule, forlorn fragments of a people’s doomed last stand.

Humans share a surprising amount of anatomy with the rest of the animal kingdom. We’ve got the same bones, joints, muscles, and basic internal plumbing. But there’s one tiny, everyday feature that no other species has—not even our evolutionary ancestors—and scientists still shrug when asked why it even exists. Meet the chin: evolution’s biggest unsolved facial mystery.