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The DNA of a 6000 year old chewing gum allows the portrait of a prehistoric girl

Lola lived 5,700 years ago and loved to chew prehistoric chewing gum. The latter was found, perfectly preserved, by Danish researchers who extracted a myriad of information on the life of Lola. She lived at the present site of Syltholm, on the Island of Lolland, in Denmark, 5,700 years before …

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Lehigh sends congratulatory email to students not admitted to university

Lehigh University inadvertently sent a Congratulations e-mail to 137 unselected applicants for early admission. But within hours, Lehigh officials realized that someone had e-mailed congratulations to all those who had applied for early acceptance instead of those who had been admitted. Students who apply for an early acceptance decision can …

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The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for research in art and cultural history

As of 2020 the renewed Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for art historical research will take a more thematical and global direction towards research in the domain of art and cultural history: it will focus exclusively on the Netherlands as an international intersection of art, artists, artistic ideas and materials. In recent decades, …

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