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Music
Eurovision 2023 locations are being shortlisted, so it's time to let the music move you and explore some history of the world's greatest tunes!
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poe is one of the world's most popular writers of the macabre, eerie, and downright terrifying. Find out more about this interesting figure and his works on Infoplease!
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Disasters
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The Perseids Meteor Shower
The Perseids meteor shower is this weekend, peaking on August 13th. Learn more about meteors, the constellation Perseus, and our Solar System today!
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This Day in History
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This Day in History
Prospectors found gold in Alaska, a discovery that set off the Klondike gold rush.
Weather of the Day
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Weather of the Day
On this date in 1969, Hurricane Camille pummeled the Mississippi coast. Winds exceeding…
Birthday of the Day
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Birthday of the Day
A magistrate whose avocation was mathematics, Fermat is known as a founder of modern…
Word of the Day
Word of the Day
Which of these classic American movies ends with a bittersweet hegira?
Analogy of the Day
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News of the World
Experts behind the project claim the technology for "de-extinction" already exists, but…
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Our solar system consists of one star (the Sun), eight planets and all their moons, three dwarf planets, and several thousand small solar system objects—asteroids, comets, trans-Neptunian objects, and…![Newsboy with breaking news]()
It’s been a busy week, from political tensions to national investigations. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories of the week.![Mexico Pyramid of the Sun]()
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Acknowledged: U.K., China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, United States, Israel, North Korea1 Seeking: Syria, Iran2
