Although they’re literally at our fingertips, we seldom think of them. However, our word processors’ fonts sometimes have intriguing, even surprising origins,…
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Abraham Lincoln wasn’t the person we imagine. In public, he might have been a famous orator who could stand in front of…
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I think we can all agree that workout advice is kind of all over the place. How many reps? How many sets?…
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It’s hard to believe, but it happened, and it was less than 100 years ago. In what was perhaps the biggest flop…
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US President Donald Trump recently ordered a Tomahawk missile strike against the Assad regime in Syria without first seeking Congressional authorization. This…
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Approximately 1.5 million people were murdered in Poland alone during WWII, with the Nazis mercilessly killing six million Jewish people from countries…
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Sleep may not be the highest priority on most people’s to-do lists, often coming second to work or leisure. However, people might…
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The US has a long and gruesome history of slavery that has affected almost every part of its culture. Children in school…
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Often swept under the rug and given nonthreatening names such as “collateral damage,” the deaths of civilians at the hands of military…
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It is one of our favorite fantasies: what if someone had killed Adolf Hitler? How different would the world be if somebody…