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World - / Aug 21, 2026 - In 1986, a family sold California's 53,000-acre Santa Rosa Island to the US for nearly $30 million - In 1986, the United States government acquired Santa Rosa Island for close to thirty million dollars. This pivotal purchase marked the end of longstanding private ranching and agricultural practices on the sprawling island. Following the removal of cattle in 1998 and the cessation of residency in 2011, efforts towards environmental restoration commenced. Today, the island stands as a protected national sanctuary and an important cultural landmark.

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World - / Aug 21, 2026 - Louisiana man's floating hunting lodge can move for duck season and is listed at $5.5 million - A unique luxury lodge named Fowl Play is available for $5.5 million in Louisiana. This property is built on floating barges and can be towed into the marsh. It offers waterfront living and outdoor adventure for up to twenty-two people. The lodge provides a commercial-grade kitchen and upscale amenities for guests. This mobile retreat combines hunting and fishing experiences from a single base.

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India's four bear species and where travellers can spot them

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Five lakh workers, one metro wait: When will Pune Metro Line 3 finally open?

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Man claims Meta fired him after he refused to sign a Green Card letter for a Chinese visa worker, seeks $1 million in lawsuit

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In 1987, Fort Peck tribes returned over 100 bison to 5,800 acres; decades later they stopped hunting their own herd to restore the original cultural purpose

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In 2003, Chicago's mayor sent bulldozers to carve six giant Xs into an airport runway overnight, stranding 16 planes; 12 years later, the former airfield reopened with 40 acres of prairie, wetlands and wildlife habitat

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Indian father drowns while paddleboarding in Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey during family picnic; he was in an area not supervised by lifeguards

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George Floyd mockery, Django Unchained reenactment: Lawsuit details racist conduct at Phoenix airport

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Priscilla Chan's parents fled Vietnam by boat; their daughter became the first in her family to attend college and later pledged millions to scientific research

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FBI arrests woman in alleged ISIS-inspired plot to bomb New York State Capitol

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A 1,256-megawatt nuclear reactor on Lake Erie accidentally became a wildlife sanctuary, now spotted turtles nest inside its buffer zone

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Meet Vallabh Ramesh, the 18-year-old Kentucky student who created a 3D-printable smart gel that solidifies at body temperature and could one day deliver drugs inside the body

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Pennsylvania university soccer star killed by 'demon' boyfriend whose mom helps dispose body

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In 1908, a Boston woman donated 140 acres around Maine's Beehive and Bowl to stop future development; six years later 5,000 acres had been protected for what became Acadia

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In 1898, an adventurer abandoned the sea for California's desert and built a home on a volcanic island; his strange settlement later became known as Hell's Kitchen

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In the Early 1900s, a Maryland landowner released just five or six Japanese sika deer, and their descendants spread across four counties and Assateague Island

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Pet owners dumped unwanted turtles in an Oregon park: A 2015 count found 30 of 50 basking turtles were invaders crowding out both native species

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Imran Khan's kin say Pak govt violated court order for not taking ex-PM to private hospital

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Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan returns to Adiala Jail after medical examination at Islamabad hospital

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Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan moved to private hospital from prison after SC order

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Red-faced Pakistan summons top diplomat over US envoy Gor's J&K remark in Srinagar

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Pakistan govt to challenge SC order to move jailed ex-PM Imran Khan to hospital

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Imran Khan's sister meets him after 9 months as Pakistan SC orders hospital transfer for jailed ex-PM

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'30 civilans killed': Baloch activist shares video of 'Pakistani war crime', seeks US intervention

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Pakistani minister in Balochistan province escapes armed attack on convoy

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'Water is our red line': Shehbaz Sharif threatens India with 'direct response' over Indus Treaty

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'False': In rare move, Pak army reacts after rumours swirl of Imran Khan's death

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Why US is questioning Pakistan's Rs 3 trillion defence spending

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PML-N set to form 'government' in PoK after two former 'premiers' lose strongholds in third phase

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'Discontent answered with bullets': MEA slams Pakistan over PoK crackdown

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After weeks of violent protests, PoK votes in final election phase amid PTI, JAAC boycott calls

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BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Alamgir wins Bangladesh presidential election with 255 votes

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Sheikh Hasina says she will return to Bangladesh in December. What awaits her back home

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Nepal Speaker orders PM Balen to face House on Aug 26; attended just 5 of 39 sittings

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Nepal: Break Agniveer hiring deadlock, Gorkha veterans press Balen government

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Break Agnipath deadlock, Gorkha veterans press Balen govt as Indian Army chief visits Pokhara

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Blast near Kabul school injures around 50 children; UN condemns 'heinous' act

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Dhaka terms UN's report on al-Qaida presence in B'desh 'assumption-driven'

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Bangladesh sets tough riders for PM Tarique Rahman's visit to India

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Bangladesh PM's proposed India visit conditional on Hasina extradition, officials say

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'Both sides interested': Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman's first India visit likely in August 20-25 window

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An English town installed a six-metre swing bridge whose deck contains the equivalent of 140 recycled plastic bottles per square metre and can be manually opened for passing boats

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'Made a scapegoat': Wife of Indian captain jailed in UK over Russian oil vessel case

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Man dressed as 'Grim Reaper' climbs onto hospital roof with long blade and stares at patients, trying to scare them

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Who is Nathan Cofnas, the self-styled 'race realist' at centre of Jason Arday plagiarism row

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Liverpool weather forecast: Sunny intervals and 19°C high on August 21, 2026

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Birmingham weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 21, 2026

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 21, 2026

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Manchester weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures today, August 21, 2026

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London weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected August 21, 2026

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New UK govt booklet tells asylum-seekers rape and child sex abuse are illegal

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Manchester synagogue terror attack: Iraqi national charged over failure to disclose information

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Major UK hotel chain CEO Joanna Boydell resigns amid security failings, sexual assault cases

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In 1624, a family bought an English estate that still contains ancient oak trees from a royal hunting forest; 402 years later some are still standing

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Nathan Cofnas, who exposed Cambridge professor Jason Arday's plagiarism, suspended by Ghent University

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Harvard to pay $53 million after human remains donated to its medical school were stolen and sold on the black market

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Quote of the day by Queen Victoria: "Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to..."

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China among 'main actors' involved in transnational repression: Germany

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'Sava's Titanic,' the century-old sunken shipwreck emerges as Europe's rivers fall to record lows

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Car salesman becomes Belgian prince after DNA test confirms royal paternity

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In 2017, Germany's Freiburg opened a city hall with solar-powered walls designed to produce more energy than the building needs

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Russia unleashes ballistic, cruise, hypersonic missiles and drones on Ukraine; Kyiv main target

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Overnight Russian missile strikes leave 6 dead, 33 wounded across Kyiv

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Trouble brewing for Zelenskyy? Ex-defence minister calls for wartime polls

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European wild boars escaped a North Carolina hunting ranch in 1912; a century later the Smokies still removes hundreds each year to limit their damage

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Queen Camilla says she nearly revealed King Charles III's cancer diagnosis days before palace announcement

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A 2,500-year-old sacred well in Italy hid bronze offerings and two human skeletons from an ancient Etruscan ritual

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An unstable rock formation threatens the existence of an entire Swiss village of 1,300 residents as thawing glaciers destabilise the Alps

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British couple on honeymoon die in helicopter crash on Greek island; pilot also killed

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Russia warns UK over Ukraine drone supplies, says Britain will face 'consequences'

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Women were excluded from Liechtenstein's throne for more than 400 years; a new royal rule now gives the firstborn child, regardless of gender, the right to inherit, and know who'll now own the throne

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Belgian student in construction job uncovers €9m gold treasure while digging sewer trench

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China's 16.18-km undersea high-speed rail tunnel completes 21-day cutter replacement under extreme pressure

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In China's Nizhuhe village, a 945-foot cliffside elevator has cut a dangerous 3-hour school journey to about 30 minutes

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China puts AI 'robocops' on traffic duty; one 'Superman' robot claims to be faster than Usain Bolt

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China sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison for financial crimes

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10 dead as torrential rain lashes southwest China; over 21,000 evacuated

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Cash, gold bars by drone: China's PLA stages 'wartime' Taiwan drill

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Archaeologists find earliest physical evidence of brass-making in East Asia in southern China

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Meet Ni Jingchen: The 12-year-old Beijing student who posted a strange fossil online and helped reveal Asia's first Jurassic amphibian footprint

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From hospitals to schools: China expands scrutiny of religious beliefs in Chengdu

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China launches 24th batch of low-orbit internet satellites from Hainan site

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The invisible war: Iran's evolving cyberattacks bring battlefront to small-town America

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55,000 years ago, Neanderthals may have trekked deep into Saudi Arabia when Nefud Desert was covered by lakes and grasslands

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Iran rejects Trump's Hormuz 'total control' claim, says strait will reopen only on Tehran's terms

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Separated by Hamas in Oct 7 attack, Israeli couple reunites to marry 10 months after engagement

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US's secret Hormuz corridor: How America kept ships and oil moving despite Iran's closure

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India ramps up aid to Palestine, signs MoU for 200-bed super-speciality hospital

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Indian caregiver fatally stabbed in Israel, elderly couple's grandson indicted

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10:50 - 'Message to Europe - it can receive missiles': Iran warns of wider war if Trump attacks, says report

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Trump-Bibi tensions deepen? US officials frustrated by Israel's Syria strikes: Report

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'We'll bomb the s*** out of them': Why Trump is again threatening Oman amid Iran talks

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'Don't let them win': Netanyahu's party puts Zohran Mamdani alongside Iran, Hezbollah leaders on billboard

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Iran claims control, ships choose Omani route: What's changing in Strait of Hormuz

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'All trade, commercial exchanges halted': How UAE responded to Iran's latest ballistic missile attack

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'Ready to deal with any threats': UAE vows response after Iran fires two missiles

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Swiss tourist gets 1-year jail in Bali for mocking Hindu festival, calling tradition 'crazy'

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Quote of the day by Theodore Roosevelt: "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by..."

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Singapore rebuilt a vanished 1920s lake inside a new housing estate; engineers turned it into a flood-control system and wildlife habitat

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In the 12th century BC, elite Greeks wore iron jewellery made from metal that fell from space; 3,000 years later, scientists traced its extraterrestrial origin

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In 1994, Steve and Terri Irwin bought 3,500 acres to restore dwindling koala habitat, then planted 44,000 eucalyptus trees and added 1,630 more acres

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In 2020, Belgium raised semi-transparent solar panels above a working pear orchard; pear yields fell 15%, but combined land-use efficiency reached 44% higher

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In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt sent New Zealand 20 elk for sport, and their hybrid descendants are still at the centre of a conservation debate

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In 2021, a flood-prone French town planned a 1.3-megawatt solar roof over its cemetery; the canopy would protect graves, collect water and supply residents

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In 2020, students helped raise money to protect a Canadian island from development; Chip Wilson's family foundation later donated C$4 million to protect three islands

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Meet Angus Johnstone, the Australian teacher who kept a kite in the air for more than 26 hours to raise money for Myanmar

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'Baby Shark' boy returns to stage, this time as a K-pop singer

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In 2019, Bahrain sank a 70-metre Boeing 747 in 20–22 metres of water; the jumbo jet became the centrepiece of a 100,000-square-metre underwater park

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North Korea fires 10 missiles amid US scaling back military drills with the South

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Two Belgian climbers vanished in the Alps in 1992; melting ice has finally revealed their remains 34 years later

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A strange wooden log found beneath Zambia's Kalambo Falls was dismissed for decades, then archaeologists dated it to 476,000 years ago

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Express train kills 4 workers carrying out weed-control work on tracks in Japan

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In 2016, the Burt's Bees co-founder gave the US 87,500 acres and backed it with $40 million; 10 years later the Maine wilderness is a national monument

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A Costa Rican mother saved for 9 years to buy land, then built her home with 7 tonnes of recycled plastic

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In 1964, a 27-year-old woman bought an abandoned 18 acre island off Maine and built a small house to live there alone; 22 years later the island was donated to become a wildlife sanctuary

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MacKenzie Scott got $1,000 from her roommate to stay in college. Years later, she donated $26 billion to charity

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68-year-old Sheila Consaul bought Ohio's abandoned Fairport Harbor West Lighthouse for $71,010 in 2011, then spent 15 years and over $300,000 restoring it as an off-grid home

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'Should end war now': Iran prez claims world 'acknowledges' Tehran's victory over US

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UAE is turning desert sand into eco-friendly bricks, and the method cuts cement needed for construction to nearly half

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In 1962, five pet mute swans escaped in Maryland; within four decades their descendants neared 4,000 and were eating 10.5 million pounds of Chesapeake Bay grasses a year

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Florida police officer arrested after using Flock surveillance cameras 717 times to track estranged wife

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In 1911, Norwegian whalers released 10 reindeer on South Georgia for food and hunting; a century later nearly 7,000 were removed after the herds damaged native vegetation

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In 1931, a bankrupt farmer abandoned 4,000 sheep on a sub-Antarctic island: Decades of isolation produced a flock with rare inherited traits

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Streamer Nitro_Camden's Twitch stream takes an unexpected turn after StableRonaldo sends 15,000 viewers

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Meet Lianna Genovese, an 19-year-old Canadian student whose gadget made from straws, sponge and pipes helps people with cerebral palsy rediscover painting; now sells in over 25 countries

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In 1932, Texas ranchers introduced axis deer from India for fenced hunting; the deer later escaped and spread across the Edwards Plateau

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New York started digging Water Tunnel No. 3 in 1970; water reached all of Manhattan only in 2013, 43 years later

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Jason Arday's death: Why a Ghent University academic is under probe after plagiarism accusation

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In the 1920s, America turned to Japanese oysters as its native industry declined; their descendants now support a Pacific Northwest shellfish industry worth over $270 million

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Apollo 11 set up the Moon's first seismometer in 1969; its recorded moonquakes gave scientists the first detailed map of the lunar interior

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Hawaii fenced the summit of Haleakalā against goats and pigs; native plants recovered inside while grazing continued outside

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16-year-old ran onto a Tennessee middle-school football field during a scuffle and tackled a player; school district banned her from its properties for life

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In 1966, American folk singer Pete Seeger set out to "build a boat to save the Hudson"; his floating classroom has since reached more than 500,000 people

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In 1982, a California cheese maker donated thousands of acres from his dairy ranch; 44 years later crews removed his old cattle levees and reconnected the San Joaquin River to 220 acres of floodplain

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An Iowa family moved the entire $12,000 farmhouse four miles on wheels to create their dream home

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