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Is Ring Around the Rosie really about the plague? Discover the rhyme’s dark myths, true origins, and global versions.
Journalists and politicians dare not speak its name — but that doesn't mean COVID hasn't got a serious legacy.
Many former monarchs changed their names when they were crowned - and Prince George could follow the same rule.
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But it has prevented a return to the fraudulent and poisonous food supply of the 19th century, which one historian called the “century of the great American stomachache.” That is, until ...
Stinking mats of rotting seaweed are already starting to pile up on beaches across the Caribbean. These mega-blooms of slimy brown algae called sargassum were once seldom seen — but climate ...
The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the Crown, used to show the monarch's approval of important State documents. In today's constitutional monarchy, the Sovereign acts on the advice of ...
London has burned, bled, and rotted — but never fallen. From the Great Plague of 1665 to the Great Fire of 1666, the city faced back-to-back disasters that nearly erased it. Bodies lined cobbled ...
The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...
It would be one thing to sign Diggs to that kind of deal when he was still peaking back in 2020, but Diggs is now 31 years old and coming off a torn ACL - which means his days of highly-productive ...
“The Great Gatsby,” published 100 years ago this month, is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most perfectly realized work of art. It reveals a new and confident mastery of his material, a fascinating if ...