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The name Marvin Pipkin is hardly a household name, but if you’re inside right now, there’s a very [...]

Walk down the street in any American neighborhood today and you’re unlikely to see a lot of people [...]

Virginia City, Nevada, is a small town about half an hour’s drive from the state capital of Carson [...]

Hi! As I mentioned over and over this week, I’m on vacation! I’ll be back with a new Now I Know [...]

Hi!  Next week, Im taking a vacation — kind of. I’m not actually going anywhere but I am [...]

It’s the note no one ever wants to get — an email from human resources unexpectedly telling you [...]

Pictured above is a small plane in front of a big mountain. The plane is on a runway at Pierce County [...]

Hi!  On Tuesday, I shared the story behind the first name “Gary” — where it comes [...]

Pictured above is a screenshot from the satellite view of Google Maps from a location in New Brunswick, [...]

The English city of Ripon (here’s a map) isn’t all that different from any other city in the [...]