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Shaka Zulu is one of the most storied figures in South African history. Believed to have been born around 1787, ...

Linguistics, working on sound shifts, has given us about 1,600 words in Proto-Indo-European, which no one has spoken in over 5,000 years. Archeology has identified cultures and their movements across ...

It was one of John Ripley's prouder moments as a father. He texted his daughter, who was on a trip to Europe, and told her not to eat the French fries in Athens. She replied: "Why? Because they're too ...

John Donegan appeared to have some trouble grasping the concept of a humane society's use of language, as evident in his opinion piece last ...

There are four primary motivations behind the trend of renaming DEI functions, each reflecting a broader shift in how ...

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Julian Barnes is the author of 13 novels, including the 2011 Booker Prize-winning “The Sense of an Ending.” In 2017 he was ...

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In the last hours on the final day of the 2025-26 legislative session, lawmakers in the House pushed the Fentanyl Induced ...

Since 1925, children across our fair land have competed in classroom, school, and regional spelling bees, hoping to make it ...