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Scoreboards have come a long way since the turn of the 20th century, when operators climbed ladders to update boards with chalk or hang a different number to indicate the start of a new inning or quarter. Manually operated boards slowly gave way to more e
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When Bill France Sr. founded NASCAR in 1948, the sport's handful of sponsors were almost exclusively local businesses.
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You know the characters, but you might not know their full names. Store these tidbits away in your noggin for future trivia.
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Radiation as a medical cure has valid uses and definite dangers to the human body. We use radiation for diagnosis (as in x-rays) and for therapy (as in cancer treatment), but the benefits must be carefully weighed against the costs. Once upon a time, radi
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American products are available around the world—but they're not always called by the name they've been given in the U.S. Sometimes, companies will change a product's name to adapt to various languages and cultures. Here are 12 American goods with differe
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by Robert Isenberg In the aftermath of the Cold War, Bosnia became a red-hot battleground teetering on the edge of destruction—until one man and his family dug their countrymen to
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A Bill Murray comedy as metaphor? These eight theories say yes.
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Alfred Kinsey, biologist, pioneering sex researcher and founder of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, once wrote that "a marked quiescence of the total body is the most widely recognized outcome of orgasm," more noticeably among males
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