10 Famous Actors and Their Weirdest Film Choices. You might be intrigued enough to seek one or two of them out to watch.

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Fabulous Food Chains and the Dirt on Decomposers. A crash course on how life on Earth works.

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How to Turn Plants Into Tinctures, Like an Ancient Alchemist. They won't heal you, but they will bring new flavors into your life.

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A Brief History of Mail-Order Brides. Whether you call it arranged marriage, mail-order bride, online dating, or matchmaking, the procedures are similar.

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Resilience and Recipes in a Jewish Cookbook Written by Concentration Camp Prisoners. Fantasy dishes and flavors from memory offered comfort in a time of despair.

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The Admiral Faces a Mutiny. The respected naval officer Joseph Giles Eaton died from arsenic poisoning, but would anyone pay for the crime?

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The Oracle of Oyster River. A 95-year-old hermit has some ideas for saving our natural world.

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How Long It Took 30 Writers to Finish Their Famous Novels. They range from a couple of days to a couple decades.