Category: Education/Family (Page 10)
Charles Edward Entenmann, who helped turn his family's New York-based bakery into a national brand, died in Florida at age 92.
Entenmann died Feb. 24 in Hialeah, his son, Charl…
Too often, we look at a lush, lovely nature spot and think about holding some kind of event or function there. But Kerryn Belli, who lives in Western Australia’s Mid West region, …
Two U.S. brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art — they’ve been passing the same hard candy back and forth for over 30…
A Roman Catholic diocese in Sicily publicly apologized to outraged parents after its bishop told a group of children that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.
In a Faceb…
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Portmanteau words are added to the English language all the time. Recently, scientists have attached cutting-edge bionic arms t…
A portmanteau word combines the meaning of two other words. If you take “smoke” and “fog,” you can make the portmanteau “smog,” which describes fog intensified by smoke or polluti…
In Japan, the police emergency number is 110. In New Zealand, it’s 111. Needless to say, in both countries, that number should not be dialed unless the caller is …
Seeking to please his wife, who had wished for a more diversified view from their family house, a Bosnian self-taught innovator has built a
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It’s difficult to shuck an oyster — that means to open an oyster shell — but your reward might be a beautiful pearl. That gives…
In this month’s column we look again at common idioms from the animal kingdom.
Guinea pigs are very cute pets, and have also often been used in laboratory test…
