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When will cicadas go away? Depends where you live, but some have already started to die off
USA Today· 7 days agoAfter weeks of hearing the near-constant noise from the periodical cicadas that have emerged in...
Richard Groves: Lyng eyes: Some refuse to be confused by facts
Winston-Salem Journal· 1 day agoIn 1789, when Thomas Jefferson was minister to France on behalf of the new government in the former English colonies, he wrote a letter to an acquaintance in London in which he said he had been ...
Land trust purchases 80 acres in Orange County to add to Hoosier National Forest
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe property was purchased for $541,000 through the land trust's fund established to provide money...
Minter: Separation of church and state
The Longview News-Journal· 2 days agoPhilip Hamburger wrote something of a bombshell book about 20 years ago. Hamburger is a graduate of Princeton University (1979) and Yale Law School...
Colin McEnroe (opinion): The Facts, R.I.P.
Stamford Advocate· 3 days agoIn the words of Thomas Jefferson, what’d I miss? Millions of Americans woke up to coverage of President Joe Biden’s speech the previous day in France, as...
Viral Claim Says Every US Founding Father Was a Felon. Here Are the Facts
Snopes via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWho Were the Founding Fathers? This question might sound a bit silly, but the term "Founding...
'It depends on what you mean by oldest': 10 things to do in historic Nacogdoches, Texas
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoIn fact, the new light-filled interpretive center, shaped like a Caddo grass house, is more inviting...
David Boaz, RIP
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWe just barely got 1 percent. And although we said, 'This is unprecedented, blah blah,' in fact we were very disappointed." Boaz began working at the...
Collecting the Coins of the United States' Birthday: Jeff Garrett
Coinweek· 3 days agoOn July 4, 1826, there were parades, fireworks and speeches around the country to celebrate the 50th birthday of the United States. In fact, in one of the strangest coincidences ...
STD infecting periodical cicadas can turn them into 'zombies': Here's what to know
USA Today· 12 hours agoThere's more than just noise passing between the trillions of periodical cicadas that have emerged...