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At least 39 dead in Spain after two high-speed trains collide

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At least 39 dead in Spain after two high-speed trains collide

By Nina Lopez and Michael Francis Gore ADAMUZ, Spain, Jan 19 (Reuters) – At least 39 people were killed in southern Spain after a high-speed train derailed and collided with an oncoming train late on Sunday in one of Europe’s worst rail accidents in 80 years. The crash near Adamuz in Cordoba province, about 360 … Read more

DNA revealed a surprising twist about Christopher Columbus

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DNA revealed a surprising twist about Christopher Columbus

On February 22, 1498, Christopher Columbus, in fair weather in the mid-1940s, directed in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa be preserved for his family “because from it I came and in it I was born.” Although most historians consider the document to be a complete record of the famous … Read more