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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 ...
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Why Are Oft-Repeated Jokes or Stories Sometimes Called “Old Chestnuts”?
The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that chestnuts were named after a ... The connection between chestnuts and old stories ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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Peter Mark Roget, A Retired Doctor, Began Writing His ‘Thesaurus.’ It Took 4 Years To Write
National Thesaurus Day, on January 18th, honors Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, who was born on this day ...
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How Tigers' Old English D came to be, thrive
The Old English D has become so iconic with the Tigers that one look at the cap instantly brings up an association with Detroit. While other sports logos and letters have been fashion trends over the ...