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Since leaving the post of vice president in 2001, Al Gore has renewed his commitment to environmentalism. His film on global warming was shown at Sundance and Cannes and was released commercially on May 24. Also check out other recent events and the fate of the Kyoto Protocol.

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President Jimmy Carter

Clothes make the man—or at least, according to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, they reflected the personalities of the leaders involved in the historic Camp David Accords of 1978, which resulted the following year in the signing of the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country. President Carter, who negotiated the treaty between Israel and Egypt, reflects on this event in his new article for Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Born this day in 1969 was German tennis star Steffi Graf, who dominated women's tennis in the late 1980s and '90s, winning singles titles at each grand slam event multiple times—including seven at Wimbledon.

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On this day in 1940, the first transport of Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, which became Nazi Germany's largest concentration, extermination, and slave-labour camp, where more than one million people died.
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The new movie on Jamestown, The New World, has generated great interest in this chapter in American history and in its larger-than-life characters such as John Smith and Pocahontas. Britannica's new coverage of Jamestown is written by David A. Price, whose acclaimed book, Love & Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation, is now available from the Britannica Store.
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