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This summer, China will host the Beijing Olympics. Thousands of top athletes and millions of fans will pour into Beijing starting in August....

1922: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most visited memorials in the United States. That's due in part to its dra...

Garrulous: Pointlessly or annoyingly talkative; wordy.

About 65,000 children in the Caldas region of Colombia will soon be getting an XO laptop. It has signed up to the One Laptop Per Child progr...

1914: While the 1912 sinking of the Titanic made headlines, the sinking of the Empress of Ireland was relatively unpublicized - even though ...

Redoubtable: Arousing fear or awe; formidable. Worthy of respect or honor.

In the story of the three little pigs, the one who built his house of straw did not fare well; the big, bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew ...

1999: Always at the cutting edge of art, Leonardo Da Vinci was experimenting when he painted the famous mural The Last Supper (1498). Da Vin...

Heliolatry: Sun worship.

Polar bears were added to the list of threatened species and will receive special protection under U.S. law. In his statement, Secretary of ...