Category: Features
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Rare: Buy you a drink? It depends
It should come as no surprise that alcohol makes many people more palatable. Ever heard of beer goggles?
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Rare: Fourth of July by the numbers
Happy Fourth of July! It’s time to celebrate the anniversary of America’s own #Brexit with hot dogs, parades and large explosions.
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John Paul II Film Festival features a documentary on Pope Francis
A documentary on the life of Pope Francis — from his childhood, to his role in the Church in Argentina to his election as pope — will make its big screen debut at the John Paul II International Film Festival on Saturday, April 12, in Miami.
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Biologists in Florida return rehabilitated Florida panther to the wild
Biologists with the Glorida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have released an endangered Florida panther on private property in southeast Hendry County.
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Popular show Psych to end on March 26
The popular USA Network comedy series Psych will come to a conclusion on March 26 as the show wraps up its eighth season.
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Make Your Home Safer for Your Family
Tips to keep your children safe from a hidden danger (Family Features) Filled with mesmerizing trinkets and gadgets – your home is a new and exciting world for your small child to explore. But this new world can introduce serious and sometimes surprising safety issues that many parents do not realize are risks. Hidden concerns…
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Are You Passing Down the Wrong Family Traditions?
High blood pressure ran in Dee Louis-Scott’s family, along with a talent for preparing delicious, beautiful meals that kept everyone at the table for hours. “I hear many families with a history of medical problems who say they can’t do anything about it because it’s ‘genetics,’ ” says Louis-Scott, author of “Believe in the Magic,”…
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‘A date which will live in infamy’
It was a typical Sunday morning in Hawaii. But just before 8 a.m. 69 years ago, the serene morning quickly turned hellish. From the morning sky, 353 aircraft Japanese descended on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor intending “to destroy America’s military establishment in the Pacific.” A total of 2,400 Americans – 1,177 on…
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Enola Gay navigator addresses high school students in Jefferson
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay, address Jefferson High School students on Monday, the Athens Banner-Herald. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, during the closing weeks of World War II, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on a city. The blast produced a mushroom cloud and killed 140,000…
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U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for Nov. 24
The major story on this date 38 years ago was the brazen hijacking of an airliner on the West Coast by a man calling himself “D.B. Cooper.” After collecting $200,000 in ransom, the man parachuted from the airliner over a wilderness area south of Seattle. He was never seen again, but some of the ransom…