Witness scenic beauty, marine wildlife, and glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska

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Learn about the geography, agriculture, and commerce of the Netherlands.

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Abraham Lincoln once called the railroad the United States' most important goal.

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Learn about a controversial 2017 study that used thorium/uranium dating of broken mastodon bones to argue that a prehistoric human species, such as Neanderthals, lived in North America some 130,000 years ago.

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The first circumnavigation of the globe was led by Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who was charged with finding a Spanish route to the Moluccas. He was killed on Mactan Island in 1521, but the expedition returned to Spain under the command of Juan Sebastián del Cano.

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How the billion-year-old Midcontinent Rift helped form Lake Superior.

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A look at Yellowstone National Park, western U.S., including its geothermal features and wildlife.