Barrier islands are Florida’s postcard paradises. And developers keep building on them and people keep moving to them in a ...

– A Romanian prison: “When I was in jail, I fell very, very ill. I had tuberculosis of the whole surface of both lungs, and ...

Dozens of children, a room full of gratitude, and the quiet heroism of the Sisters of Life turn a parish gym into Bethlehem ...

While soap is meant to clean and protect, not all formulations throughout history were safe. Over the years, some popular brands were pulled from shelves after research revealed harmful chemicals that ...

In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000. The optimistic renderings envisioned people in Victorian fashions enjoying ...

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On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA's Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. The Galileo spacecraft launched in 1989 on a mission to study Jupiter and its moons. It also flew by ...

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Re-airs of this season (now concluded) can be heard Saturdays at 3pm on NCPR's sister station WREM, 88.7 in the St. Lawrence Valley or anywhere ncpr.org/remix or on ...

William Boyd’s novel Restless, winner of the 2006 Costa Novel Award, describes the adventures of Eva, a young Russian émigrée, who is recruited for the British Secret Service during the Second World ...