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Buried treasure.  The idea that one of us — armed nothing more than with a shovel and an X-marked map [...]

On December 1, 1955, a white man boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.  The bus driver, James F. Blake, [...]

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Those words were [...]

You can buy nearly everything online, more often than not on Amazon.com.  It may surprise you that this [...]

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 [...]