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This month, U.S. census workers will set out by bush plane, dog sled, and snowmobile to count residents living in Toksook Bay, Alaska. Located in the Yukon Delta region on the Bering Sea, the remote village of Toksook Bay will be the first place to be counted for the 2020 Census.
Picture a monk sitting at a desk with ink-stained fingers, toiling for a week over a single page of handwritten text from the Bible.
How did we ever used to make books? How did we create pamphlets, flyers, newspapers, or any form of printed matter?
For generations, Italian grandmothers, or nonne, have passed their recipes and cooking techniques along to their daughters and granddaughters. Younger generations willingly accepted those heirloom recipes—committing each step and ingredient to memory because the recipes were rarely written down.
The rock group The Mamas and the Papas once sang about winter in the gloomiest terms, crooning that “All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey.” Don’t be fooled.
Winter is a great time of year, and, more to the point, a good one in which to sell your house.
In 2012, high school junior Matthew Walzer was looking ahead to college. It’s an anxious time for anyone, but Walzer had concerns most students never think about.
Walzer has cerebral palsy and, though he had overcome many obstacles over the course of his 16 years, the ability to tie his own shoes eluded him.
It’s difficult to comprehend, but children’s stories are older than the Bible itself. As long as there have been people, there have been tall tales meant to teach and entertain.
If anyone has Hollywood history embedded in her DNA, author Victoria Riskin is that person. After all, her parents were Tinsel Town royalty: her father, the Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin; her mother, the stunning leading lady Fay Wray, best known for her timeless performance as the gigantic ape’s crush in Merian C. Cooper’s classic King Kong (1933).
While stereotypes are sometimes true, there’s one that definitely no longer stands: The notion that seniors and computers don’t mix. On the contrary, the number of tech-savvy seniors has increased exponentially over the years, and experts anticipate that this trend will continue.
Earlier this year, Zheng Xiangchen from Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for holding the world’s largest collection of valid credit cards—a whopping 1,562.
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