The fall classic is underway as the Los Angeles Dodgers face the New York Yankees for the twelfth time in MLB’s championship, The World Series. A championship game or series brings out the best in some athletes and the worst in others. The pressure of the event trickles down to every pitch, every swing of […]
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Edgar Allan Poe was widely renowned as being one of the first great writers of the horror genre. His work paved the way for many others to come along, even to this day. He lived an up and down life of victories and defeats, seemingly one after the other. As he wrote many mysteries, there
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On the night of October 8, 1871, a seemingly innocuous fire began in a barn to the southwest of the central part of the city of Chicago, Illinois, known as the Near West Side. By the end of the next day, a major portion of the city including the downtown business district lay in ashes.
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Hurricanes hit parts of the U.S. every year. The damage can be massive and can reach places that were here-to-fore thought of as safe havens from such a disaster. One of those safe havens recently faced the worst destruction in its history owning to flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. That city was Asheville,
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ANOTHER VICTIM: ASHEVILLE, N.C. Read More »
In today’s international relations, many countries view the British Prime Minister as the Head of State, acting in lieu of the King. Though this seems to be the case to outsiders, the truth is a little bit different. The relationship between Prime Minister and the crown has been developed over a long space of several
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