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Can you figure out the one-word answers that start with 'S' and end in 'O' by their description?

How many can you answer correctly without missing?

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What kind of mating is a checkmate? What kind of hair is mohair? What does a fanfare have to do with fans? It all makes sense when you go back to the Arabic roots of these words.

An 1830s print of visitors arriving at a hermitage.

For grand gentlemen of the 1800s, a hermit was the must-have garden accessory.

There’s a reason why a couple episodes of ‘Star Trek’ look as if they were shot in Andy Griffith’s Mayberry.

Before their feature film, they made a demo, complete with tiny Stonehenge and terrible wigs.

Can you pick the words that can drop a letter "K" and still spell another word?

Can you name the periodic table elements that contain only one type of vowel (A, E, I, O, U, Y)?

Can you name the longer forms of each of these clipped words in English?

Artist: Lucien Davis // Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Now that spring is here, no matter how committed you are to cars, it’s hard to resist an occasional mosey or stroll.

The full-length parody album is called <em>Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans</em>.

A 1930 film of Plains Indian Sign Language captured the end of a once widely used lingua franca.

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American Motorcycle Association Hall of Fame via Wikipedia (Augusta and Abigail) // Public Domain

One hundred years ago, two sisters ditched their gilded cages for a cross-country motorcycle adventure they hoped would change the nation for the better.