A town is generally accepted as any region bigger than a village and smaller than a city. It has its own government,…
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While most of us are familiar with, and enjoy watching, the summer and winter Olympics, fewer people are familiar with an event…
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Jackie Robinson famously broke baseball’s color barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But he’s not alone in having…
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We often assume that those who lived before us were inferior in intelligence and accomplishments, especially when we think of ancient medicine.…
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Author Peter McAllister wrote a book called Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male Is Not the Man He Used to…
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We’ve told you before about the many important items our species has managed to somehow lose over the years. But a few…
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Slavery stretches back as long as human civilization (or perhaps even longer) and stretches forward to the 21st century (the current slave…
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As summed up by Homer Simpson, the most important philosopher of the 20th century: Beer is the cause of and solution to…
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There are different kinds of quack doctors. Some are just out to make a quick buck and prey on the sick, while…
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Ancient cultures have been practicing healing arts for as long as we have written historical records. Many of these practices eventually led…