Solomon Northup detailed his time in Central Louisiana in his 1853 narrative "Twelve Years a Slave," on which the Academy Award winning movie is based.

But what many don’t know is that Alexandria, which lies about 136 miles northwest of Cairo, actually once stood as Egypt’s capital city, from 332 BC until 642 AD - a period of 973 years.

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Solomon Northup was honored Thursday at the Alexandria Museum of Art with a statue that highlights the enduring impact of slavery, both in the past and present.

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Get all the latest news, photos and videos on Alex Jones, best known for co-hosting The One Show. Alex, who also stars in Shop Well for Less, has held the TV role since 2010. Alex is married to ...

Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin is on the doorstep of an NHL scoring record that many thought was unbreakable. The 39-year-old Ovechkin is closing in on Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL ...

Likens co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem study, which eventually led to the discovery that fossil fuel emissions from the mid-west were contributing to acid rain in New England forests.

What do you notice about the mass of biological (living) forms and mass of technological (man-made) forms on Earth? What do you wonder? By The Learning Network A teenager and a New York Times ...

When Andy Tri shows you, year by year, the expansion of black bears’ range in Minnesota, you almost expect to look out the window and see one ambling by. Bear #6082 and two of her triplets ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...