6 Creepy Victorian Ghost Stories to Read Right Now
These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.
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Somerset WWII memorial service remembers Canadian aircrew
The memorial remembers five men who were on a Canadian Wellington Bomber that crashed in Broomfield.
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Which players, teams and coaches have the most NBA championships?
If winning is the ultimate measure of NBA success, which players, teams and coaches have captured the most championships in the NBA history?
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The Origins of 8 Literary Clichés
Clichés are viewed as a sign of lazy writing, but they didn’t develop that reputation over night.
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The Girl With the Green Ribbon: A Grisly History of ‘Headless Woman’ Stories
Precursors to the story about the girl with the green ribbon were written by Washington Irving, Alexandre Dumas, and more famous authors.
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A Brief History of Pizza
The history of pizza is a large pie—half Margherita and half lies. Let’s take a bite out of pizza’s past, covering styles from Neapolitan and New York to Sicilian and St. Louis and beyond.
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8 Historical Accounts of Werewolves
Turning into a werewolf was a popular pastime in 16th-century France.
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17 of History's Coolest Cats
Anyone with a cat will probably argue that their feline is the coolest—but there have been at least a few other candidates through the ages, from Able Seacat Simon to Abraham Lincoln’s kitties to the feline that inspired Nikola Tesla.
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Parental Advisory: When Tipper Gore Took on ‘80s Rock Music
Suggestive lyrics from bands like Twisted Sister led to the 1985 Parents Music Resource Center Senate hearing on whether musicians should be allowed to rock without parental supervision.
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The Reason Why People Who Cross Picket Lines Are Called ‘Scabs’
By the late 1700s, laborers adopted the insult to refer to workers who wouldn’t join a strike, a union, or take part in organized labor and undermined their fellow workers.
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The Wild History of the Tale That Created the Modern Vampire (And No, It's Not ‘Dracula’)
‘The Vampyre’ is largely forgotten today, but it upended centuries of vampiric lore 80 years before Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’—and from its spooky beginnings to its scandalous misattribution, its history was as dramatic as fiction.
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Queens of Prohibition: The Wild Story of 8 Women Bootleggers, Moonshiners, and Rum Runners
These daring dames ventured into the underworld of contraband liquor.
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