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Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

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While both films acknowledge the long, ugly history of American racial prejudice -- tough to cover in a short documentary -- ...

Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was ...

Before European contact, the Cherokee had a practice of adopting and enslaving prisoners of war from other tribes.

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political borders.

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Members of a self-styled African tribe have been evicted from their camp on council-owned land in the Scottish Borders. The three people, who call themselves the Kingdom of Kubala, have been staying ...