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On Wikipedia, Anyone Can Be a Model
Slate via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLittleT889/Wikipedia In June 2020, back when we were all marching the streets in masks and it felt like the world was ending, an anonymous Wikipedia...
Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAntiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images...
Did an Elmira man kill the last Labrador Duck? Last known sighting occurred during flood
The Star Gazette via Yahoo News· 6 months agoI grew up in the “Buttonwood Settlement” (the Brand Park area) of Elmira's Southside, where my...
Poet Billy Collins on shedding New York and finding contentment as a Florida Man
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI often write about our state’s inexhaustible tales of “Florida Man” — that guy with a special...
11 Celebs Who Were Accused Of Lying About Their Age
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAge can be a big deal in Hollywood — especially for women. For example, when Maggie Gyllenhaal was 37, she was told she was "too old" to play the love...
He had roles in 'Psycho II,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Columbo' and many more ... and he's from Galesburg
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHere's one from the "I didn't know they were from Galesburg" category: This man was born at Cottage...
The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)
Esquire via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)Courtesy of Publisher There’s a long-standing theory that in times of real-world strife, readers lose their...
The 25 Best True-Crime Stories of All Time
Slate via Yahoo News· 3 months agoTrue-crime fandom may be booming, but that doesn’t mean that our cultural fascination with evil and transgression is new. Most innovations in media have...
University of Alabama graduate writes history of Tulsa Race Massacre
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThough he grew up in Montgomery a lifelong reader and writer, later two-time editor-in-chief of...
How Sergei Shoigu, Putin’s embattled one-time bestie, rose to the top of Russia’s military and...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoRussian President Vladimir Putin (L) shows mushrooms to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his...