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Spies have been a movie staple for almost a century. Though there may have been references to espionage in earlier movies, the first spy film ever made was probably ”Mata Hari,” a 1931 hit...
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Americans love to snack. The market research firm NPD reported that we consumed nearly 386 billion ready-to-eat individual snack foods in 2018. While healthier snacks are trending, NPD notes that...
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“England and America are two countries separated by the same language,” George Bernard Shaw once said (perhaps). There’s no denying that our two nations use certain identical words in very...
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America is a huge country with immense variation in climate and topography and a diverse population drawn from hundreds of nations around the world. These factors add up to incredible variety in what...
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Food fashions come and go just like fashions of any other kind. Availability of new ingredients, increased familiarity with different cuisines, the imagination of chefs and restaurateurs, and simply...
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In the 1970s, disco was big and hip-hop was growing, but the period was also known for a number of one-hit wonders. The most successful of these was “You Light Up My Life,” sung by Debby Boone,...
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Americans love Italian food. Four of the top 20 most successful restaurant chains in the country are Italian (more or less) — Pizza Hut, Domino’s, Olive Garden, and Little Caesars. The...
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A duel is a formalized fight between two individuals, theoretically with equally matched weapons — almost always either swords or pistols, though there are exceptions — conducted according to...
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HBO dominated the 2022 Emmy Awards, and it looks set to do so again this year, with dozens of nominations for such shows as “Succession,” “The White Lotus,” “The Last of Us,” “Barry,”...
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In 2022, according to the American Library Association, there were some 1,269 attempts to ban books around the country – some successful, some not (there had been 729 attempts the previous year)....
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New England — comprised today of the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island — was given its name by English explorer John Smith in 1616, and the...
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For a dead language, Latin still has plenty of life in it. A dead language is one that’s no longer used as a native tongue. Though there are many more examples around the world, the most famous...
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There are more than 200,000 words in the English language — words drawn from Germanic roots, from Latin and Greek, and in lesser quantities from more than 350 other tongues. And more words get...
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Every state has produced at least one criminal whose deeds were so heinous or have effects that are so far-reaching that they become truly infamous. To compile a list of the single most infamous...
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The famed Swiss-American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank once said “There is one thing the photograph must contain – the humanity of the moment.” Some photographs, however, capture not...
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