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U.S. HistoryArticle377 Funny Things That Happened in the 1970s
The 1970s were a time of contradictions in the United States. The fallout from the ongoing Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal led to widespread cynicism, but that tension…
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U.S. HistoryArticle0Why Are Presidential Terms Four Years?
Every four years, Americans go to the polls to elect the U.S. president. It’s a familiar process — the campaigning, the debates, the Election Day drama — and an equally…
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Arts & CultureArticle0Why Do Shirts Have Collars?
As we go about our daily lives, we tend to take the existence of many simple things for granted, rarely considering how or why they came to be. Take, for…
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U.S. HistoryArticle1The Rise and Fall of the ‘Farmers’ Almanac’
For more than two centuries, the Farmers’ Almanac was a familiar presence in American homes — tucked beside seed catalogs, wedged between cookbooks, pinned on barn walls, or kept in…
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World HistoryArticle0How the Calendar Got So Complicated
The modern calendar can seem confusingly arbitrary, with uneven months, leap years, and even missing days in history. But despite its strange inconsistencies, the calendar we use today is the…
