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Some people love the concept album—and some love to hate them. But chances are you’ve listened to songs from one or two of them in your life.

Keep these tips in mind when discussing politics during the holidays.

Historical figures like Charles Dickens, Thomas Nast, Washington Irving, and even Queen Charlotte all helped create Christmas as we know it.

Some of these former mascots were beloved—and some have been gladly forgotten.

There are Christmas tree farms scattered throughout the United States. Here’s which states produce the most of the holiday-favorite evergreen.

The holiday toy craze of 1983 inspired a line of counterfeit Kids that were stuffed with flammable rags.

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000-year history, the caduceus had nothing to do with medicine. 

A new study finds that residents of Dublin, Belfast, and Glasgow were better at detecting fake accents than their counterparts in southern areas of England—possibly as a result of long-ago conflicts.

What began as a routine renovation revealed Harvard's history of body snatching.

Here's how to tell frostbite symptoms from hypothermia symptoms.

It wasn’t just the cover of the Purple One’s shelved 1987 LP ‘The Black Album’ where things got dark.

From expecting Santa to fill socks with gifts to eating cake that looks like tree bark, some holiday traditions are downright odd. But we can explain!