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Ascension Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, about equidistant from the coast of Africa and [...]

Hi! I really wanted to titled today’s email something like “It’s better to have an [...]

Summertime is vacation for schoolchildren and, left to their own devices, there’s no telling what [...]

A dozen, by definition, is twelve of something — eggs, doughnuts, roses, it doesn’t matter. And [...]

“Say cheese.” If you’re posing for a picture in an English-speaking area, you are very [...]

Hi! Earlier this week, a baseball writer I follow on Twitter, Craig Calcaterra, shared a story about [...]

Green iguanas, pictured above, aren’t native to South Florida, but they’ve carved out a home for [...]

Here’s some good news: in the United States, almost all of the children who are reported missing [...]

Hi! A reader wrote in this week to ask why I don’t really use Twitter or Facebook etc. for Now I [...]

The Dutch city of Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands by population, after Amsterdam, [...]