20 Foods You Didn’t Know Were Named After Places
Many of the foods we eat are named after various cities or countries around the world — English muffins, French toast, crab Rangoon, pad...
100 Most Popular Musicians on Tour This Fall
Very few popular musicians can avoid spending time on the road. Just as touring is essential for up and coming musical acts it is...
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Fame is elusive for performing artists, and for only a select few, fame is enduring. For musicians, fame was once measured by record and...
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Campaign songs promoting candidates have been in use since the days of George Washington. Today, rather than dedicated campaign tunes, politicians often use popular...
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What’s more American than a group of friends taking up instruments in a garage and starting a band with dreams of making it big?...
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The 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine was recently awarded to Professors James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for developing a cancer treatment method that utilizes...
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There were more than 26,000 confirmed cases of Lyme disease in the United States in 2016. Humans contract the disease when a blacklegged tick...
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Heart disease remains by far the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for 800,000 deaths a year, or about 1 in...
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As of 2018, 76 low- and middle-income countries around the world received, at some point, food aid from the United States. Many residents in...
Worst Outbreaks of All Time
Outbreaks of disease have had a profound effect on human existence. From the time of the pharaohs to the present day, epidemics of diseases...