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Today's featured article James and Margret Reed of the Donner Party The Donner Party was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train, but became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains in November 1846. Running out of food, some resorted to cannibalism to survive. The journey west usually took between four and six months, but the Donner Party had been slowed by following a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day Utah. They lost many cattle and wagons in the rugged terrain, and divisions formed within the group. Their food supplies ran low after they became trapped by an early, heavy snowfall high in the mountains. In mid-December some of the group set out on foot and were able to obtain help. Of the 87 members of the party, 48 survived to reach California. Historians have described the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in California history. (Full article...) Recently featured: John Richard Clark Hall Ludwigsburg Palace Siege of Guînes (1352) Did you know... Royal Game of Ur board, c. 2500 BCE ... that scholars disagree on whether the earliest-known game boards (example pictured) date to the Neolithic or the Early Bronze Age? ... that the Estado Novo deprived Aurora Rodrigues of sleep for more than two weeks to induce hallucinations? ... that the Hogmanay special Live into 85 was so shambolic it ended a 32-year tradition? ... that Casey Washington made the game-winning score that ended a record nine-overtime college football game? ... that the distinctive coloration of the giant panda appears to serve as camouflage in both winter and summer? ... that Saparinah Sadli defended one of her former students when Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency challenged her gendered exploration of the New Order regime? ... that the 18th-century hymn "Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed" has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"? ... that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice" due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria? ... that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show?

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