Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years in an eight-foot-by-seven-foot cell. He was isolated from the people of South Africa, from his children, and...
Students taking the English 10 course titled “Moby Dick” were surprised to discover that “Call me Ishmael” is not the only sentence.
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The University of California Board of Regents convened an emergency meeting after discovering much to their chagrin that their extended vacations do not extend...
“The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ series of erotic novels are the favorite reading material among ‘high-value’ prisoners at the Guantanamo detention camp in Cuba,...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it has been aggressively auditing the Tea Party and other conservative political groups for their tax-exempt status.
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In “Fiftie Godlie and Learned Sermons,” Heinrich Bullinger writes, “Let adulteries … rapes, and incestes bee put to exile.” That was written in 1577....
Discussion of women’s health has dominated the political circuit recently; however, when the House of Representatives held a hearing on President Obama’s contraceptive-coverage rule, they failed to give women a prominent voice.
In 1995, when Kim Jong-il consolidated power, an alarming number of frogs disappeared from North Korea. The reason was that desperate North Koreans were eating frogs to ward off starvation. The famine that occurred between 1995 and 1998 ranks among the most underreported and obscured man-made tragedies. Half a million to 2 million people died; yet no one believed these estimates because the insular nature of the North Korean government turned any information about it into propaganda or rumors.
