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With a single stroke of his pen, Charles Schulz managed to distill life’s most profound truths into deceptively simple comic strips that taught generations what happiness truly means. The world of Peanuts, with its lovable cast of characters and their everyday adventures, has captured hearts and minds for over half a century. At the core of this beloved comic strip lies a simple yet powerful concept: ''Happiness is …'' More

A Spanish-language flyer by the Red Cross provides detailed routes to the US southern border, shelter locations, and instructions on how to jump off a moving train safely.

Wall Street was first developed in the 17th century as it was a boundary of a settlement known as New Amsterdam. It was actually a wall that was built to protect the area from English colonial settlers. Within a few short years the planks and picket fences that had formed the wall had been replaced by a wall that was 12 feet tall and designed to keep out the Native American tribes.

The workplace can be a minefield of personalities, filled with combustible people. Employees with different workplace personalities may have substantially different approaches to work, including their preferences in how they're treated or assigned work to how they treat others and approach their assignments.

It was confusing enough when the harvest celebrations arrived in the middle of spring. It was the 1st Century BC and, according to ritual, there ought to be ripe vegetables ready for eating. But, it was clear there would be many months before the harvest. The problem was the early Roman calendar, something Julius Caesar wanted to fix. The task was to heave the Roman Empire onto a calendar aligned with both the rotation of the Earth on its axis (a day), and its orbit of the Sun (a year).

In 1975 a congressional hearing revealed the CIA had numerous top-secret weapons including a gun that became known as the ''CIA heart attack gun''.

Artful Dodging: Answering a different question than the one that was asked-not quite a lie, but an evasion. When you've seen it: Nearly all political debates feature at least one dodge, also known as a ''pivot.'' In one Republican primary debate, Trump was asked, ''Do you still believe President Bush should have been impeached?'-to which his response started, ''First of all, I have to say, as a businessman I get along with everybody. I have business all over the world.''

Illinois has a reputation for political scandal – and with good reason. According to one 2023 study from the University of Illinois Chicago’s political science department, Chicago was named America’s most corrupt city for the fourth year in a row and Illinois the third-most corrupt state. Headline-making political corruption has spanned decades in the state, and with it has come the downfall of several political leaders – including four governors who served time in prison.

Could a Great White shark kill an Orca (Killer Whale)?
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If you think you understand a topic, try explaining it to someone. This may prove you don't know as much about it as you thought. How Leap Year works is a lot more complicated than you think.

I find Amazon a great place to buy what I need, and sometimes the product is so good (or bad) that when Amazon asks, I'll write a review.

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In 1956, a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. Despite many searches, no one has ever found the plane.

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Have you ever wondered how you would look if you were a yellow character like the ones you see on TV?

This is the story of the only successful overthrow of a domestic government in American history. Once generally referred to as a ''riot'', the events of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina are now more widely understood to have been a massacre of its African American citizens, and the overthrow of an elected government.

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Uncle Jay had a unique and entertaining way of making today's news comprehensible to the innocent, the ignorant and the immature. Also children. Jay kept it simple, so even the famous people he talked about could follow along.

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''Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit,'' a tradition uttered on the first day of the month to bring forth positive luck, has a captivating past. It is believed that if one utters those words prior to any other on the very first day of a fresh month then good luck would prevail during the next thirty days.

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The Battle of Mobile Bay is perhaps most famous for Admiral Farragut's immortal words, ''Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!'' When Farragut's flagship, the USS Hartford, faced a line of torpedoes (naval mines) as they sailed into the bay, he understood the risks but chose to press forward.

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, houses five world-class museums, all under one roof. Dedicated to the American West, its history, art, Native American heritage, the natural science of Yellowstone, and the development of the firearm are on display. Find your true West at the Center of the West.

Museums hold some of humanity's most cherished treasures, so it's not surprising that the most famous museums around the world host millions of visitors each year. Here are the 20 most popular museums in the world.

My wife and I traveled the country for about 10 years in our motorhome. It was a wonderful part of my life. From 2021: Buffalo Gap National Grasslands

From 2018: Early newspapers in America were run by political parties, swaying news to fit their purpose, and that editorial bias is still here on the editorial page. While a paper may endorse one candidate or another, the news content is generally impartial, with some exceptions. Cable and satellite news can be very much one way or the other, the prime example may be Rupert Murdock's Fox News Network. When Bill Clinton was president, CNN was often referred to as the "Clinton News Network" because of the favorable reporting in that direction. Are Wordsmiths Creating The News?

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