Visitors explore the Roman Necropolis at The Vatican. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
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GAZA CITY, GAZA- Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
A photo of Dr. Roland Pattillo sits in the living room of Pat Pattillo. Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR hide caption
Roland Pattillo helped keep Henrietta Lacks' story alive. It's key to his legacy
'Half American' explores how Black WWII servicemen were treated better abroad
Grenadians watch a landing convoy during the Grenada Invasion of 1983. On October 25, 1983 the United States invaded the island of Grenada after the Grenadian Army, controlled by former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, seized power of Grenada in a bloody coup. Shepard Sherbell/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Lice have irked humans for many centuries. In this 1497 woodcut printed in Strasburg, Germany, a man is de-loused. Science & Society Picture Library via Getty Images hide caption
A jungle gym in the 1970s — a staple of playgrounds all across the U.S. H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images hide caption
Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100
Kris Perry (left) and Sandy Stier, two plaintiffs in the landmark 2010 lawsuit that overturned California's ban on same-sex marriage, share photographs from their wedding ceremony during an interview at the KQED offices in San Francisco on March 3. Stier and Perry came to the studio to watch clips of their testimony in federal court, which KQED had fought to get unsealed, for the first time. Kori Suzuki/Kori Suzuki / KQED News hide caption
Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to U.S. Congress was running for president in 1972 when she had a remarkable interaction with the pro-segregation George Wallace, then governor of Alabama. Her efforts to build bridges with him ultimately changed his point of view. She's pictured here giving a speech at Laney Community College during her presidential campaign. Howard Erker/Oakland Tribune-MediaNews Group via Getty Images hide caption
Lessons from brain science — and history's peacemakers — for resolving conflicts
Baritone Will Liverman stars in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Zenith Richards/Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera hide caption
The "bun in the oven" idea goes all the way back 2,000+ years to Ancient Greece, along with some other ideas that discuss pregnancy as a fundamentally passive state, says the author of a new book. Andrew Bret Wallis/Getty Images hide caption
Lily Gladstone, left, plays Mollie Kyle in Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, right. Apple TV+ hide caption
'The Unmarked Graveyard' digs into the mysteries surrounding author Dawn Powell
Fliers from a recent UAW strike in Chicago. Jim Vondruska/Getty Images hide caption
Women began reporting and covering TV news when the first Spanish-language network went on the air in the 1960's in the United States. Jaclyn Nash/Smithsonian's National Museum of American History hide caption
Will Foot (left) and Lewis Henderson, of Deptford Northern Soul Club. Deptford Northern Soul Club hide caption
Northern Soul is thriving across the U.K. thanks to Gen Z looking to dance
President Joe Biden speaks as he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli and U.S. government officials, Wednesday in Tel Aviv. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
A crowd of mostly Evangelical Christians waves U.S. and Israeli flags during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) "Night to Honor Israel" event during the CUFI Summit 2023 on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Children play at a kindergarten surrounded by decorated concrete blast walls designed to protect from rocket and mortar fire in 2015 in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nahal Oz near the border with the Gaza Strip. Menahem Kahana/AFP file photo via Getty Images hide caption