This passage 2 is read by students to test their speaking skills: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light ...

And the worst was yet to come. The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in ...

The Descending Passage takes you on a 300-foot long diagonal journey beneath the surface of the Giza plateau, down to the Unfinished Chamber. The general public is not allowed down this small ...

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They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete the voyage.

A right-wing activist on Monday accused Vice President Kamala Harris of plagiarism over passages of a book she co-authored more than a decade ago. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the ...

A right-wing activist on Monday accused Vice President Kamala Harris of plagiarism over passages of a book she co-authored more than a decade ago. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the conservative ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has been accused by a conservative activist of plagiarizing passages in a book she co-authored more than a decade ago. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the ...

A report by Christopher Rufo says the Democratic presidential nominee copied five short passages for her 2009 book on crime. A plagiarism expert said the lapses were not serious. By Stephanie Saul ...