Fed up with invasive species and sterile landscapes, Douglas Tallamy urges Americans to go native and go natural

The great South American civilization used complex knots and fibers for record-keeping and communication.

An effort in Illinois to prevent biannual clock changes — such as the one Sunday moving time forward one hour — appears stalled. The state Senate passed a bill in November by Bunker Hill Democrat Andy Manar that calls for setting clocks ahead one hour to…

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The toga was a garment worn by men who were citizens of Rome and which consisted of a single length of wool cloth cut in a semicircle and wrapped around the body of the wearer without any fastenings...

If you want to raise capital for your business, telling an investor that your new venture is weird, expensive to build, and that you’re not sure the health department will go for it is not the best approach.  And yet that’s exactly how Steven Schussler, CEO…

At the time of his death in 1820, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. was one of the most revered public figures in the Unite...

John Mulaney Relates How He Broke The News To Comedy Central On Dave Chappelle's Departure

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Want to know everything there is to know about a windsock? Check out this article about the purpose, colors, speed charts and suppliers of windsocks!

Excerpt from Montana State University / D. Cash & R. Johnson Every farmer has heard stories of someone affected by a hay fire. It certainly isn’t a minor incident since it can damage property and threaten lives. While hay fires can occur during transportation…

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When the clocks went back, the horological conservator at the royal castle changed 400 clocks by hand.

Study traces genetic ancestry of pumpkin family

Louis Van "Bud" Abernathy (December 17, 1899 – March 6, 1979) and Temple Reeves "Temp" Abernathy (March 25, 1904 – December 10, 1986) were children from Oklahoma who, without adult supervision, took several cross-country trips. On one trip they rode on horseback…

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Time to go back into the woods and learn more about the legend of the Blair Witch.

Yu-Gi-Oh prides itself on strategy, and the franchise has done its best to never lose sight of [...]

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