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Map from The Escapes of David George. Credit: Credit: Springer Cartographics

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In I Told You So!, author Matt Kaplan reveals how scientists from Darwin…

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On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was finally liberated. In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, New York…

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