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This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

No list of celebrity pets is complete without Bubbles, the most famous chimpanzee in history. Born in 1983 and adopted by Michael Jackson as an infant, Bubbles became the ultimate symbol of 1980s ...