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The Great Depression was a time of great economic and social change that affected many parts of American life—including Halloween. Parents, concerned about

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Florida laws protect sea turtles, which are distracted by light when fleeing to the water. Local laws may require that you use tinted turtle glass windows for your waterfront SW Florida home, condo, or business.

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The fact that some pirates wore eye patches most likely had nothing to do with a missing eye, and everything to do with being able to see—specifically, above decks and below them.

When the black chief-in-waiting of one of Botswana’s most powerful tribes married a white British clerk, they faced uproar and exile in an apartheid-era world.

The pulsar PSR J1748-2446 is the universe's fastest-spinning object and the most extreme example of a neutron star known.

Shabani (Japanese: シャバーニ, romanized: Shabāni) is a male western lowland gorilla, who was born at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands, raised in Australia, and currently resides at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. He gained publicity in 2007…

Canada recently slapped a tariff on U.S. exports of ketchup, and the EU plans to do the same. But is the condiment all that American?

California sea otters are a threatened species, and one of the things that kills them comes from cats on land.

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After you have had the misfortune of bailing someone out of jail there is going to come a time where you wonder whether or not you are going to get your

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a…

Excerpted from Taylor Branch's The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA, published by Byliner and newly relevant today as Northwestern football players seeking to unionize argue before the National Labor Relations Board that they are employees…

Keith Cutler was told he would have to sit as a juror despite being the judge presiding over the case.

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