Today the Dalmatian serves as a firehouse mascot, but back in the days of horse drawn fire carts and engines they provided a valuable service.

American journalist

Fruit trees naturally reproduce themselves from seeds, but most fruit trees that you buy are not produced that way for very good reasons. There are many ways to propagate fruit trees, and each meth…

In 2013, Hank Hunt's daughter, Kari, was attacked and killed by her estranged husband in a Marshall, Texas hotel room. Kari's nine-year-old daughter was in the room and tried calling 911 on the hotel phone. She dialed 911 four times as her mother was attacked.…

American television personality

landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton

What was the last thing you ate? Did you think about where it came from? I’m willing to bet that food was related some how to pollination. Whether it was a fruit or vegetable that was pollinated directly or from an animal that ate the food being pollinated.…

covert Israeli military operation to airlift Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991

Matthew McConaughey first uttered his famous line in Richard Linklater's coming-of-age 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused," in which he played David Wooderson

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How the City of Manchester helped American president Abraham Lincoln abolish slavery

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Rosaceae /roʊˈzeɪʃiː/, the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including 4,828 known species in 91 genera.

Gold Rolex Was Reportedly A Gift From Marilyn Monroe

The Bestival headliner despairs at the riots, wealth inequality, and the UK 'sliding into a police state': just don't ask him to write a song about it

American basketball player and businessman

Harry Potter and the shady accounting practices.

human settlement

The U.S. leads the world in shark attacks, but other animals are deadlier.

British-born American astronomer

In the 1950s a Soviet geneticist began an experiment in guided evolution. He wanted to show how domestication works