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The 27 Weirdest Town Names Ever Put on the Map
Bob Vila via Yahoo News· 8 months agofirehouse in rough and ready california Across the United States there are towns that are remarkable for their storied namesakes. From accidents to...
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...
Clam believed to be 200+ years old — named 'Abra-clam Lincoln' — found at Alligator Point
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMarch 8 update: More than a week after this story published, the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab issued a...
One Sister Fled Boko Haram. The Other Was Trapped. Their Lives Will Never Be the Same.
The Wall Street Journal· 3 weeks agoTen years after the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls became a global phenomenon, most are back home—and...
'Free speech opportunist' Elon Musk caved to government pressure to censor tweets ahead of the...
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 12 months agoTwitter CEO Elon Musk is seen on stage sa he speaks at the POSSIBLE marketing conference, Tuesday,...
Opinion: A woman who composed the first draft of history finds herself written out of the history...
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoProminent institutions, such as the Smithsonian, have historically erased or omitted US women from...
First she documented the alt-right. Now she's coming for crypto.
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn a strange, animated YouTube video, Cryptoland paints itself as the ultimate utopia, featuring...
The year in good news
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA smiley face. Illustrated | Getty Images It was a great year for good news. Around the world, discoveries were made, celebrations were held, and people...
Time to wake up about 'Woke': Color Us Connected
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThis column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, Jr., an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman ...
The genesis of Memorial Day in RI: Why we remember our fallen heroes
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMarion McQuillian was 8½½ years old in the spring of 1917. As the accompanying photo shows, she and...
