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Stacy Conradt|
Just because you created the work doesn’t mean you want credit for it.
Rudie Obias|
There was a close call concerning the raid that killed bin Laden, and strangely it involved actor Eric Stonestreet.
David W Brown|
They’ve been called “flying Oval Offices,” presently contain some of the world’s most high-tech missile defense systems, and even starred in an action movie alongside Harrison Ford. Yet, contrary to popular belief, Presidential airplanes have been around
Mark Mancini|
This is how you should talk to people, at least according to old guides to etiquette.
Arika Okrent|
If you're a kid learning how to write, English spelling can seem like a cruel prank.
Arika Okrent|
From her discovery by Walt Disney to her death from complications of multiple sclerosis.
Stacy Conradt|
Somewhere deep within the waters of the North Pacific, a whale wanders alone. No one has ever seen him, but they’ve certainly heard him: this mystery whale’s song has haunted marine researchers since oceanographer Bill Watkins first heard his strange voic
Roma Panganiban|
In 2001 a different Kim was in line for the throne: Kim Jong-nam. But then he tried to visit Tokyo Disneyland...
David W Brown|
Whatever significance the number nine had to the phrase, it doesn’t seem to have always been specific to clothing.
Matt Soniak|
Installment #63: The new military spending bill presented to the German Reichstag on March 1, 1913, arrived in a climate of growing fear. In a speech urging the Reichstag to vote for the bill on April 7, 1913, German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg (pictured)
Erik Sass|
Believe it or not, The Sandlot turns a whopping 20 years old today. Yep, those adorable little kids your pre-teen self had a crush on (and/or wanted to be) are all grown up. Here's what gang is up to these days. Sad truth: none of them went on to play bas
Stacy Conradt|
Erin McCarthy|
It’s very easy to get caught in the 21st century. Sexual indiscretions, racist tirades, and drug abuse: It’s likely they’re all being recorded in some way, and glum-faced apologies delivered to the world via Oprah are daily news. But it wasn’t always so.
Therese Oneill|
There's a lot of language in movies that you can't show on TV. We're so used to the standard ways of dubbing over words for TV that we hardly notice them—but sometimes the dubs or alternate versions do something so unusual that they stand out.
Arika Okrent|
When I was a little dinosaur fan, all I wanted was a pet dinosaur. An Apatosaurus would have been choice—big enough to be impressive, but not especially likely to eat me. But that’s never going to happen. As much as I hate to say that science will never s
Riley Black|
“One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks,” writes Alice Morse Earle in Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. “The first public building was a meeting house, but often before any house of God was built, the devil
Matt Soniak|
Ever wonder if the actors who voice the villains are just as mean-looking as their on-screen counterparts? Wonder no more. For the most part, the answer is no—but there are definitely a few uncanny resemblances in the bunch.
Stacy Conradt|
The United States Marines have their bulldogs and the Army has their mules, but the Norwegian Royal Guard has a mascot a little more accustomed to colder temperatures: Nils Olav, a King Penguin who is also a Colonel-in-Chief and a knight.
Roma Panganiban|
It's time to pull out those calculators and do the math with the density and volume to determine the total water content of the cloud.
Matt Soniak|
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