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EXCLUSIVE: Karga Seven Pictures, the Turkish-American producer backed by Peter Chernin‘s North Road Company, has acquired Simon Sebag Montefiore’s book The World: A Family History Of Humanity. Karga ...

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For some reason, humanity is obsessed with the idea of our own self-destruction. There are countless movies, novels, comics, and songs about this very phenomenon. Political initiatives and social ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

On September 14, 1959, the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 spacecraft became the first man-made object to reach the Moon. The mission, ...