12 Rare Old Words for Monsters
Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...
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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’ ...
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 ...