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A 1,000-Year-Old Lost Book Belonging To A Princess Who Fled England Was Recovered In The Netherlands
A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...
Tracing Indo-European languages’ Tamil roots
CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ ...
Why Are Oft-Repeated Jokes or Stories Sometimes Called “Old Chestnuts”?
Have you ever heard someone tell a tired old joke, only for someone else to dismiss it as an “old chestnut”? Jokes aren’t the ...
Son of deputy killed in Turks and Caicos says his mother's training kicked in when shots were fired
Shamone Duncan, a 20-year veteran of Cook County’s Department of Corrections, was celebrating her sister's birthday at a ...
Yakka, larrikin, fair go: Australia in 100 words
With the arrival of the First Fleet, the colonising British began displacing First Nations languages to install English as the official language of Australia. Almost immediately, the new inhabitants ...
The centuries-old, incredibly male quest to live forever
The longevity industry is coming off perhaps its best run on record. The expected span of an American life has increased by ...
Former longtime Courant reporter dies after ‘a life well-lived.’
She joined the Hartford Courant to work as a general assignment reporter covering breaking news, investigative stories and ...
Erasing Mount Denali
Following the president's order, the Gulf of Mexico will henceforth be referred to as the Gulf of America, and North ...
Chad Brown reels after losing his mentor and hometown in same week
The passing of Buff legend Bill McCartney leaves a deep hole in your scribe’s heart. We knew each other for five decades. Mac ...
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Client Confidential: Baxter & Bailey x Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) traces its roots back to 1478, and is the world’s biggest university publisher. It produces ...
From China to Dublin: ‘My first year in Ireland, I was usually eating biscuits or bread, because it’s cheaper’
When Chenchen He moved to Ireland from Fujian Province in southeast China in 2009, it was her first time to leave the country ...