Louisiana French (French: français de la Louisiane, Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily…

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ByMarini's recounts the history of the tomato, and highlights how it inspired popular Italian dishes that are now enjoyed all around the world.

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Pele's hair (closest Hawaiian translation: "lauoho o Pele" ) is a form of lava. It is named after Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. It can be defined as volcanic glass fibers or thin strands of volcanic glass. The strands are formed through the stretching…

Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, Ma was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from The Juilliard School and Harvard University, and…

A man who allegedly has persuaded more than seven women over the last three years to pay him for sex to "cure" non-existent diseases has been charged with obtaining sex by fraud in connection with the case of a 23-year-old Orange County woman, officials said…

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The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from…

Flamingos or flamingoes/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊz/ are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, the only bird family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. Four flamingo species are distributed throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean, and two species are…

The pizzly bear is an animal that was first found in the wild in 2006, but what exactly is a pizzly bear?   Pizzly Bear -…

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The tree had grown out of the stomach of a man, identified as Ahmet Hergune, who was killed during a conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in 1974.

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