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Legend has it that Juan Ponce de Leon’s exploration of Florida was driven by an irrational search for [...]

This week, many American families will gather around the lunch or (and?) dinner table, feasting on a [...]

Major League Baseball has been in operation for over a century, with the National League claiming a birth [...]

The idea that people could freeze themselves, hoping to stave off death and instead thaw sometime in the [...]

Most everyone is familiar with the biblical passage where Moses comes across a burning bush which, while [...]

What do George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, and Mitt Romney have in common?  A lot of things, certainly.  But what [...]

Back to the Future celebrated its 25th anniversary this past summer.  In the near-instant classic, Marty [...]

When Americans think of traitors, Benedict Arnold springs to mind. But seventy years later, a much larger [...]

        Locals call it “The Door to Hell.”   The name does it justice.  The picture, above, [...]

In 1883, the Indonesian volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded.  The explosion was so loud that, reportedly, [...]