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[ad_1] Gilmore Girls, which featured a young mother-daughter pair who lived in a small New England town where everyone seemed to talk a mile a minute,...
[ad_1] Everyone knows Mother’s Day—which in 2023 is Sunday, May 14—is the day to remind your mom just how much you love and appreciate her. But...
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[ad_1] In 14 novels by comic author P.G. Wodehouse, written over the course of a half-century, a fictional valet named Reginald Jeeves fielded questions of sartorial,...
[ad_1] The Great War was a time of terrible tragedy, but also led to some inventions that had a lasting impact on society. Here, we take...
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[ad_1] Every year on April 22, trees are planted, litter is cleaned up, and people call attention to the issues plaguing the planet—including climate change. In...
[ad_1] Kermit got it all wrong: It is easy being green. Committing to going greener doesn’t have to mean a 10-mile walk to work or abiding...
[ad_1] In World War II, the Allies faced a dilemma. The German Enigma machine created encrypted messages, and the Germans changed the code every day. Even...
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[ad_1] Whether you consider winning at Scrabble a case of extreme luck or supreme spelling ability, here are 11 words that—if conditions are right—will help you...
[ad_1] Duplicitous is a word with an appropriately tricky origin. It was originally a legal term for including two pleas in one, which is a no-no....
[ad_1] It’s time to take stock of what’s in your kitchen. If you’re still using a hand-me-down cutting board and those cheap knives you found on...
[ad_1] Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is one of the most admired, most studied, and most reproduced pieces of art the world has ever known....
[ad_1] On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower opened to the public. Here are some things you might not know about the beloved French monument. A...
[ad_1] In the U.S., parents are given a lot of leeway when it comes to naming their children. New Jersey only bans names that include obscenities,...
[ad_1] Most people probably don’t think much about how their mouth works. We learned to make noises and form words so long ago that it seems...
[ad_1] Choosing just 50 of our favorite books by women authors—from Anne Patchett to Zadie Smith—was no easy task, but there are worse problems than weeding...
[ad_1] Computer scientists and historians in Scotland are recreating a lost version of Edinburgh. Smart History, a virtual reality app, shows how the city looked just...