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There’s something special about bookstores — if you’re a reader, you don’t need that explained. [...]

The Nigerian city of Lagos is home to roughly 20 million people, making it not only the most populous in the [...]

On November 1, 1955, United Airlines Flight 629 took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, on a multi-leg [...]

Hi! The Super Bowl is this weekend, and I really don’t care who wins it, but I’ll watch the game anyway [...]

It was a normal day in Toronto in July 1855, except for one thing: the circus was in town. S.B. Howes’ Star [...]

In 1956, televangelist Jerry Falwell debuted The Old-Time Gospel Hour, a radio and television program [...]

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004. More than two decades later, the company is much larger than the [...]

Hi! The title above is a reference to an old Sesame Street song, but this isn’t about the song (which is a [...]

On January 28, 1986, tragedy struck the United States. The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying a crew of [...]

Pictured above is a photo of former U.S. President Barack Obama, and at first glance, there’s something [...]