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8 Beautiful Snow Scenes from Literature
Whether you're settling in for a few days of snowed-in coziness at home or a few days of airport purgatory, you can probably use something to read. Here are some beautiful descriptions of snow from literature.
Fall of the South: The Burning of Columbia
For the next few months, we'll be covering the end of the Civil War, exactly 150 years later. This is the second installment of the series.

The Ghostly Remains of "Tom's Diner"
Suzanne Vega's a cappella track helped make the MP3...but what was lost in the process?
15 Famous Filmmakers Who Never Won Best Director Academy Awards
These filmmakers directed movies you love—but they never took home Best Directing Oscars for them.




7 Things We Can Turn Off and On in the Brain
As researchers learn more about what’s going on inside our heads, they’re finding the light switches that control some of our most basic functions.