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James Cheshire receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and ...

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Friday sharply criticized federal agents for arresting journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, saying the two were “simply” doing their jobs when they entered a ...

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President Donald Trump has said the U.S. would seize Greenland “one way or the other” for security purposes, but during the Cold War, the strategic island was a de facto American military outpost as a ...