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Fact Check: Encyclopedia Britannica Is Not Banned in Texas, Y'All
Snopes via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPublic Domain/Wikimedia Commons Claim: The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because...
5 Habits That Have Been Wiped Out By The Internet
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere’s no question that the internet has made life easier. But it also has wiped out a lot of personal habits, some of which might have been...
'Antidote to the information apocalypse': How World Book encyclopedia still publishes
The Ledger via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoLast month, we discussed Wikipedia, and how the online encyclopedia, coupled with encyclopedias on compact discs, cut into the business of printed encyclopedia sets that were found in many American ...
Christmas carols: Some of our favorites have surprising origins
Herald Times Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica describes music as an ever-changing and evolving...
'Harrumph, harrumph!' Ortiz 5th grader Kiwanis spelling bee champ
The Abilene Reporter-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the end, No. 1 was No. 1. Ten-year-old Sariah Titus was the winner Saturday of the 24th Annual...
What is critical race theory? Is it being taught in Arizona schools?
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 12 months agoEarlier this year, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne started a hotline for members of...
Students from Cedarville, Springfield in top 3 at Regional Spelling Bee
Springfield News-Sun, Ohio via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMar. 8—Two local students finished in the top 3 at the Regional Spelling Bee at Wright State University on Wednesday night. The event was won by Aurora Spisak, a seventh-grader at Watts Middle ...
Black History Month at Carlsbad Library
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month. Carter G. Woodson a Harvard-trained historian, like W. E. B. Du Bois before him, believed that truth could not be denied and that reason would prevail over prejudice ...
10-year-old wins back-to-back Scripps Regional Spelling Bees
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 9—WATERTOWN — A familiar face won this year's Scripps Regional Spelling Bee Finals at General Brown High School on Thursday night. Last year's winner Micah R. Sterling, a fifth grader from ...
Heinz wants to convince Chicago that ketchup and hot dogs can co-exist. Will it succeed?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoCHICAGO − It looks a bit like the huge monolith from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." But in fact,...