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The image above is not of a squash. The yellow fruit (actually, an “accessory fruit”) is called a [...]

The second President of the United States, John Adams, died on July 4, 1826, fifty years to the day the [...]

Almost everyone has it.  It — earwax, that is — is, mostly, gross, but it serves a few purposes: [...]

Guns. Arson. And, ice cream and superglue. Not a likely mix? In Glasgow’s East End in the 1980s, the [...]

  The term “shotgun wedding” is, except in rare cases, no longer taken literally, at least [...]

Go to Vietnam and you’ll likely see the lizard, pictured right, on your dinner plate or on one of you [...]

Imagine if a major automobile manufacturer created a car “designed for women” — replete [...]

What happens when you cut a grape almost in half, cover it with a glass, and microwave it? Sparks.  Big [...]

212 is New York, while the relatively close Boston got 617. 213? Across the country, to Los [...]

A 1,000 square foot house — while small — is hardly unmanageable.   Sharing it with five [...]