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With their intricate jaws and ghostly complexions, these fish look like prehistoric monsters—or visitors from another planet.

Mark Mancini












Tongue twisters have had people tripping over words for centuries.

Whether it's selling seashells by the seashore or buying Betty Botter's bitter butter, some of these difficult phrases go way back to when elocution was practiced as routinely as multiplication tables.

Gwendolyn Purdom




Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze // Public Domain; Photo illustration by Lucy Quintanilla

Poets and writers are always playing around with words and their meanings—but some take that linguistic jiggery-pokery to the next level.

Paul Anthony Jones








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Some so-called bacon bits are 100-percent vegan. Here's what really goes into the shelf-stable convenience food item.

Michele Debczak
Rita Mae Brown at the Lambda Literary Awards in New York City in 2015.

Rita Mae Brown wasn’t even 30 when her debut novel, 'Rubyfruit Jungle,' was published, but she had already made her mark in the realm of feminist and LGBTQ activism. Here’s what you should know.

April Snellings