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When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...

A landmark US law passed more than 50 years ago helped build the world’s most successful national women’s football team.

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War Plan Red (a reference to the British redcoats of the American War of Independence) was further subdivided, depending on where in the world a potential war might break out. Ruby referred to India, ...