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Twenty-nine men lost their lives when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior. And the good ship and crew was in peril. I think it would have been just another ship disappearing if not for the Gordon Lightfoot song. The loss of the Fitzgerald showed that even though it was the 20th [...]

But before you judge, apparently geishas and kabuki dancers have been doing this for centuries. Bird poop contains guanine, which helps remove pollutants and blackheads. Plus, nowadays, instead of taking guanine, um, direct from the source, the stuff is sterilized with UV light before it’s pasted on your face. So, while I wouldn’t recommend standing [...]

I am trying to figure out if the William Underwood born 1821 in Melton Mowbray is mine. His mother passed away in 1823 and his father had remarried. There used to be hundreds of these little extra parochial pockets all over the country, dating back centuries, when land was held by the monasteries, or abbeys. [...]

Across the board, critics seem to agree that Caspian is essentially a war film and that Eddie Izzard as Reepicheep steals the show, both of which are consistent with the book. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Actors Guild of Lexington’s early spring production is Tom Stoppard’s [...]

Here’s Obama’s statement on Israel’s 60th Independence Day… This week marks the 60th anniversary of the fulfillment of a dream — the independence of the State of Israel. Throughout many centuries, Jews held fast to the hope of returning as free people to the land of their ancestors. Blessed with visionary leaders like Theodore Herzl [...]

Many of these customs are due to May Day being a cross-quarter day, meaning that it falls approximately halfway between a solstice and an equinox. Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen and celebrations involving a Maypole. May Day has been a traditional day of festivities throughout the [...]

Charles Hoy Fort was a writer who spent his time at the library, taking notes from scientific journals and formulating a response to what he considered their suppression of anomalous data. An attentive reading of the Complete Books of Charles Fort, for example, finds the author chuckling AT himself and the absurdity of his own [...]

The storms form big swirls and streamers in the planet’s bands of clouds. Jupiter’s internal heat drives the storms instead of energy from the Sun, which powers storms on Earth. Despite their great destructive power, though, such storms are tiny compared to storms on Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Its biggest storm [...]

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Although the day, also called All Fools Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. [...]

Symmary:
Although the day, also called All Fools Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. [...]