For elementary school teacher, Monique Duncan, writing a book illustrating the remarkable ways enslaved Africans used hair styles to guide their way to freedom, was a dream come true.

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Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption arguably took place in ... The humans, including men, women and children, would have been barefoot or wearing basic footwear as they ran away from the volcano ...