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Stacy Conradt

In 1887, Louis and Ivan Thoen stumbled upon an object that throws the entire timeline of Black Hills gold discovery into question.

Stacy Conradt










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If you were born in 1991, not only do you have something in common with the World Wide Web, the Honeycrisp apple, and the Jerry Springer show, you got to grow up with these words that have their first Oxford English Dictionary citations in 1991.

Arika Okrent




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Tiger, moon, and buttonhole are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to words you probably didn’t know could be used as verbs—so why not try dropping some of these into conversation?

Paul Anthony Jones