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How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween's theme song
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments....
Site for the first atomic blast opens for one day in October – here’s how to go
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt’s one thing standing in line to watch the blockbuster film “Oppenheimer.” It’s another thing...
Mississippi reporter Anna Wolfe wins Pulitzer Prize
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Pulitzer Prizes recognizing the best of journalism and the arts in 2022 were announced Monday. A Mississippi Today reporter, who previously worked...
Bursting the Beanie Baby bubble
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCollecting the pellet-filled plush toys were all the rage in the 1990s, with people viewing them as investment pieces. But as a new movie comes out about...
Why we celebrate Memorial Day
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThis history of Memorial Day was taken from the National Cemetery Administration of the Veterans Affairs, which cares for, preserves and promotes the...
Joseph Hobson ‘Joe’ Harrison III, poet, editor and teacher, dies
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJoseph Hobson “Joe” Harrison III, a poet, editor and teacher who enjoyed memorizing sports statistics, died of brain cancer Feb. 13 at his Cedonia home. He was 66. Born in Richmond, Virginia ...
Lewis LeMaster column: Did Johnny Appleseed plant trees in Muskingum County?
Gannett via AOL· 2 months agoJonathan Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on Sept. 26, 1774. By 1797, the year Zanesville was founded, he was planting what we believe to be ...
