Story one of ten today, about five minutes for the lot
Around 7,500 languages survive today, but researchers believe agricultural expansion and empire-building wiped out thousands more from an earlier peak.
Why it mattersIf farming populations caused the first major wave of language loss, the pattern helps explain how today's 7,500 languages came to be so few.
About 100 million Americans born since 9/11 encounter the attacks through stories, not lived experience.
Why it mattersHow societies decide to remember major events shapes civic identity and what lessons future generations carry forward.
Meerea Park Wines traces 200 years in Hunter Valley to convict Thomas Samuel Heather.
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