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At bedtime or circle time, kids this age are looking for fun, exciting reads that keep them engaged. From alphabet books to animal tales, fractured fairy tales to classic folk tales or funny stories ...
Sometimes they lead to changing laws. Some movements are peaceful, others turn violent. These books tell stories of people's experiences of racism and of those who put their bodies on the line for the ...
Seventy years ago this week, a hamburger joint named McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny to-go place ...
Mile Experts are always in pursuit of understanding past civilizations and periods for a myriad of reasons. Every ...
Author Dennis Connors joined us on Bridge Street to talk about his new book “The Gilded Age on Syracuse’s James Street.” The launch event for Dennis’s book “The Gilded Age on Syracuse ...
Scientists have found new evidence showing the scale of the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The University of Southampton team, working with Queen's University Canada and the Chinese Academy of ...
It shapes her conduct and character, turning her into a marriageable woman; the age gap serves a pedagogical ... ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections ...
Godzilla has faced many challenges in his 70 years of existence. He has crossed into many universes, doing battle with the superheroes of both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. However, Toho and IDW ...
Twist is a precious book in both senses of that word. It is elaborately and poetically phrased – with quotations from Wilde on love and age, Gerard Manley Hopkins on the “gold vermilion ...
Warning: This article contains graphic pictures. Reader discretion is advised. Stunning pictures show a female baby mammoth, dating back over 130,000 years, recently being dissected by Russian ...
De-extinction Of Direwolves: The news of de-extinction of direwolves has taken the internet by storm on Monday after it is reported that the ice age predator, which went extinct nearly 10,000 ...
Dorothy L Sayers gets a shout-out too and there are probably many more allusions to the golden age of crime that I missed ... If they sound like books, it’s because – and here’s the twist ...