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Anecdotally, there is plenty of evidence that people prefer things higher up over those things lower down. [...]

Each year, Paris welcomes 45 million visitors to the city.  Of those, roughly 1 million come from Japan.  [...]

Two hundred years ago, a young man named John Tyler would get his first taste of politics.  In 1811, Tyler [...]

There are, world-wide, only about 13 million Jews — a number totaling less than half the population of [...]

The image above, taken from Wikipedia, is a sattelite image.  But it is not of the Great Red Spot of [...]

    Somewhere tonight, a group of teenagers will order pizza.  A few pizzas, in fact, probably [...]

In 1919, Babe Ruth — in his last season with the Red Sox — slugged 29 home runs.  This was a new [...]

Lina Medina’s parents were worried.  Lina, one of nine children in this poor family of the Peruvian [...]

  Sometimes, the grandest plans go awry.   And because of that, we often plan for the [...]

During World War II, Americans of many different backgrounds and experience sets were drafted into the armed [...]