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- Sixty years after the debut of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion animated classic, the yearly flood of holiday films can thank the small reindeer for their success.
- Flower was once thought to repel fleas, a belief long-since debunked.
- Evidence from Snowball Earth found in ancient rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak—it’s a missing link.
- Fifty years after the famed ‘Rumble in the Jungle,’ Muhammad Ali is remembered not only as the heavyweight champ, but as a champion of civil rights.
- Cadavers used in anatomy classes were buried in unmarked lots in Columbia Cemetery.
- Fernando Valenzuela, who died Tuesday, was more than just the first Mexican superstar in Major League Baseball; he helped soothe longstanding resentments in a displaced community.
- The recent death of Dikembe Mutombo and the start of the NBA regular season today highlight the fraught realities of building a talent pipeline between lower-income countries and the NBA.
- In just a few decades, Fox went from being ‘the fourth network’ airing The Simpsons and baseball to being a leading voice in U.S. politics.
- Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims.
- Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey.