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As I grew older, things about my family’s history began to seem … off.

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One of the earliest references to sugar we have dates to 510BC, when Emperor Darius I of what was then Persia invaded India.

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American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the ...

One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared ...