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One champion later said he and his co-winner were competing against the dictionary, not each other
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., has a new interactive sculpture in the sculpture garden
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Maya Angelou was poet, novelist, educator, producer, actress, filmmaker, dancer and civil rights activist
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NASA’s Langley Research Center asked students from Virginia to participate in an art contest
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Boing Boing was given the original Disneyland prospectus, and now you can see it
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Kramer hopes "The Normal Heart" inspires a new generation of activists
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He wants to give them the Virtual Free Range™ experience
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For its 40th Birthday, the cube goes digital
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A statistical analysis tries to predict how names' popularity will change over coming decades
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The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns
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With finances tight and jobs scarce, hometowns are looking very attractive
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Three times as many kids as in the 1980s just don't read books
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If let go, they have a good chance of being able to recover emotionally
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Whiskey supplies are running low
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Browse through color swatches from the 17th Century
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Global Breakfast Radio operates in every time zone on the planet
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One snuggling operation in Wisconsin recently shut down when authorities thought it was a front for a brothel
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From tapeworms to lampreys, some people don't mind eating the bloodsuckers
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What's the source of Batman's lasting appeal?
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