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Cinco De Mayo was originally intended to connect Mexican Americans to U.S. history, but it's evolved into a major drinking event. Here's how that happened.

Download scientific diagram | College students' Narcissistic Personality Inventory scores by time period. Capped vertical bars denote ±1 SE. from publication: Egos Inflating Over Time: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory…

Reading Time: 3 minutes 37 seconds Manhattan is considered the cultural, financial, entertainment, and media capital of the world. The borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters as well as Wall Street. Many multinational media conglomerates reside in Manhattan…

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A new study has challenged the popular theory that the first Ice-Age humans who migrated to North America arrived by a land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska.

MILANO, Texas (AP)--Coyotes and wild dogs were slaughtering calves on Herbie Vaughan's ranch in the Cedar Creek valley south of Milano until about eight years ago when he took an

Although it is called "wild rice," this product is actually the seed of a type of marsh grass that is native to the Great Lakes area, including northern Minnesota. Similar to brown rice, it takes about an hour to cook and has a nutty flavor.

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (Russian: Елизавета Фёдоровна Романова, romanized: Yelizaveta Fyodorovna Romanova, Elizabeth Feodorovna Romanova; canonised as Holy Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna; 1…

It says right on the box that Cheerios can help lower cholesterol. Credit the cereal's whole-grain oats. But eating other high-fiber foods is also important.

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Your blood type is more complicated than you think, with hundreds of possible variations apart from the commonly known ABO and Rhesus blood groups. Modern genetic techniques allow rare blood variants to be characterised with pinpoint accuracy, and researchers…

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I once broke my tooth on some toffee my mom made. Every time I see a beaver, I think of that day and wonder how they can gnaw on trees all day without chipping an incisor when I couldn’t even conquer

If the Colts are as bad without Peyton Manning as they looked on Sunday, there’s a good chance they’ll have the first pick in next year’s NFL draft. Which means they’d have the opportunity to take Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, regarded by many as the…

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