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The richest Americans have been in the headlines (more than usual) recently. As the Biden Administration works to get its huge infrastructure and federal assistance spending packages through...
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In the last few years, it is hard to pick which weather disasters are the worst. The West has been pummeled by 100 degrees plus temperatures that last for days. Blasts of high winds have spread huge...
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There are 32 teams in the NFL, 30 in MLB, 30 NBA teams, and 32 in the NHL. Some players spend their entire careers with one. Baseball Hall of Famer is a good example. He played his entire 22 seasons...
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The headlines have recently been filled with battles about how some national parks can be used for commercial purposes. Among them is whether companies can drill for oil and gas. Arguments about the...
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Most likely, one of the NLF’s greatest defensive players, David “Deacon” Jones, came up with the word “sack” as a description of tackling a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. The NFL...
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Sometimes back several millennia ago, men first saw things in the sky they could not understand or identify. Maybe they were comets, or birds making migrations after dark. And, these were the...
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“Luck” is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual”. By this definition, people can be lucky but can things or...
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There are 600 million cats in the world. Just over 200 million have owners. The rest are strays. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, 32 million households in America have a cat....
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Americans have become unusually mobile since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of this is because millions of people have worked from home. Some have the ability to do that permanently. The...
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According to Pew Research, about 30% of American adults say they are single. By Pew’s definition, this means people who are not married, living with a partner, or in a “committed romantic...
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According to the World Economic Forum, an extraordinary 573,000 people worldwide will be age 100 or older this year. Of that number, about 93,000 live in the United States. The number of people who...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs says there are 19 million veterans in the United States. These include a few who served in World War II, which ended in 1945, and a large number who leave the...
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Hurricane season, which runs from June to October, has started early this year. Ana, still a subtropical storm, sits hundreds of miles off the U.S. east coast. The NOAA predicts this will be the...
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Although robbery is a crime that can happen anywhere, your chances of becoming a victim go up depending on which city, town, village or Census designated place you may be in. Robbery is “taking or...
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Snow, sleet, cold, ice, and other dangerous weather has descended across the county to create what Accuweather calls an “unprecedented storm”. Triggered by polar air, some cities will see their...
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