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The Notre-Dame Cathedral is one of France’s most famous historical landmarks. Its glorious architecture, sculptures, and ...

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In 1979, Jimmy Carter became the first president to attend an NBA game. He saw the Washington Bullets defeat the Atlanta ...

This is another choice riddle from Wit Newly Revived, an anonymous collection of short rhyming verses and riddles published in the north of England in 1775. (You can try your hand at the first one ...

Almost 170 years after the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe feasted together for the first unofficial Thanksgiving in 1621, the U.S. government decided to make it official. So on October 3, 1789 ...

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This week, Jonathan Bennett and Lars Wikman chat about Elixir and Nerves — a modern language that’s a take on Erlang, and an embedded Linux approach for running Elixir code on devices ...