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" Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935, before it moved to Broadway in New York City. It featured a cast...

I have encountered the word "mews" many hundreds of times while reading British literature, sussed out that it was an arrangement ...

  Reposted from 2014 because even though the content is contrived, it's very clever and deserves a second viewing.  Every word of the...

" A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website that previously said that vaccines do not cause autism walked back that statemen...

There has been a boatload of analysis, commentary, criticism, and speculation about the effects the new tariffs may or may not be having on ...

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Pennies are in the news today because Donald Trump has ordered that their production be terminated immediately.  That's fine, and is som...

The full phrase, as I encountered it* read as follows: He sent in his expense account: "for himself & Servant, totaling one ...

I am recurrently amazed at the wonderful logic and math puzzles posted at Futility Closet .    "You’re in a pitch-dark room. On a tabl...

Note that not only are the radius and ulna broken, but the metal plates inside the bones (from repair of previous fractures) are bent at a 9...

"In August, United and Delta Air Lines were sued by passengers in two separate but similar suits. Both airlines were accused of unfairl...

I may be introducing the subject only to myself if this item is well-known.  I encountered it in a reasonably concise Wirecutter article: ...

There is a very interesting article in the September issue of The Atlantic.  " My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods " is writte...

“We picked up one excellent word – a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get ; a nice limber, expressive, handy word – ‘Lagniappe.’ They ...

Wisconsin Butterflies is the definitive online resource for reporting sightings across the state. Last year's video is here .