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Charting the history of the 20th-century novel

Harvard Gazette
In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank chose 32 books to represent the period. He has some regrets.
6 days ago

For a century, our Kansas house has sailed the wine-dark sea of time. It carries hopes and dreams.

Kansas Reflector
For the past decade, this house on Constitution Street in Emporia has become home for columnist Max McCoy and his wife.
1 day ago

20th Century Lead Exposure Damaged American Mental Health

Duke Today
DURHAM, N.C. -- In 1923, lead was first added to gasoline to help keep car engines healthy. However, automotive health came at the great expense of our own...
5 days ago

50 Super Nintendos meet Frank Zappa on Xay Cole’s ’21st Century Wrist’

48 Hills
The lead single from Xay Cole's third album 21st Century Wrist, “Young Money,” sounds like 50 Super Nintendos lined up next to each other; its layers of...
6 days ago

Eastern U.S. floods could persist longer toward the end of the century

Mongabay - Conservation News
Fifty years from now, floods in the eastern half of the United States will last longer as climate change creates warmer and wetter weather patterns,...
5 days ago

Overnight Success? AI Has Been a Century in the Making.

Kellogg Insight
In 1956, a group of mathematicians and engineers gathered at Dartmouth College to devise an ambitious plan for building artificial intelligence.
6 days ago

Intricate 18th-century illustrations of stunning flora and fauna

New Scientist
Mark Catesby's work documents the plants and animals he saw while journeying in North America and the Caribbean.
5 days ago

A Century-Old Law’s Aftershocks Are Still Felt at the Supreme Court

The New York Times
Almost exactly a century ago, in February 1925, Chief Justice William Howard Taft persuaded Congress to grant the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: to...
14 hours ago

In Syria, the Assads leave a bitter legacy after a half-century of repressive rule

NPR
President Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad, combined to rule Syria for more than a half-century, always with an iron fist that crushed all...
1 day ago

Downtown Christmas Parade 2024 Continues Tradition of Bringing Holiday Spirit for Nearly a Century

Inside of Knoxville
I have to agree with Harry Richman as he crooned the Harold Arlen tune back in 1932: I really do love a parade. Something about the intersection of music,...
19 hours ago