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Our Top Stories for the Week of October 31, 2022

It’s been a busy week, from missiles and military drafting to changes in social media. 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.   On…

Shield Volcanoes

Shield volcanoes are built almost entirely of fluid lava flows. Flow after flow pours out in all directions from a central summit vent, or group of vents, building a broad, gently sloping…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Disenchantment

XXXIV Lost Faith Disenchantment It dropped so low in my regard I heard it hit the ground, And go to pieces on the stones At bottom of my mind; Yet blamed the fate that…

Popeye the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor has been well-known to comic strip fans since his first appearance in 1929 in the newspaper strip Thimble Theater, created by cartoonist Elzie Segar. The hot-tempered old salt with…

Harold Lowell RUNNELS, Congress, NM (1924-1980)

RUNNELS Harold Lowell , a Representative from New Mexico; born in Dallas, Dallas County, Tex., March 17, 1924; attended the Dallas public schools, and Cameron State Agricultural College, Lawton,…

NHL All-Star Game

Benefit GamesAll-Star Games Three benefit NHL All-Star Games were staged in the 1930s for forward Ace Bailey and the families of Howie Morenz and Babe Siebert. Bailey, of Toronto, suffered a…

Luminous Motion

Director:Bette GordonWriters:Robert Roth and Scott BradfieldArtistic License; NR; 94 minutesRelease:5/00Cast:Deborah Unger, Eric Lloyd, Terry Kinney Adapted from an eerie, drifting novel,…

Neymar

Name at birth: Neymar da Silva Santos JuniorNeymar is the agile soccer forward who starred for Brazil at the 2014 World Cup. The 222 million Euro transfer fee for his move from Barcelona to Paris St-…

Europa

Europa, the brightest of Jupiter's satellites, is about 1,950 mi (3,160 km) in diameter or about the size of Earth's Moon. Its density is about three times that of water. The moon is covered…