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Imagine you are a door-to-door salesman in a town with poor urban planning.  Tasked with visiting 25 [...]

The history of the written word, tautologically, extends back to the beginning of non-oral history [...]

The boat pictured above is called a lepa-lepa, a 15 foot long, five foot wide watercraft.   While the [...]

On October 3, 1918, a French battalion of 500 soldiers serving in World War I was trapped in a hillside [...]

Sir Alec Guinness, most famously known (to his chagrin) as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, was an accomplished [...]

This week, the NFL announced that it may impose stricter penalties for helmet-on-helmet tackling, in an [...]

    Europe and the Pacific were the two primary arenas in World War II, but the battle also was one [...]

The situation, while uncommon, was not unheard of. A man goes out on a drinking binge and his intoxication [...]

    The National Hockey League (NHL), probably the world’s premier professional ice hockey [...]

If you look at a common map of the world such as the one above, you are lead to believe that Africa and [...]