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A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alike
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCreated in Europe during a time of intercultural struggle and strife, Esperanto was meant as a...
Are You There, Readers? It's a New Judy Blume Biography. Read an Exclusive Excerpt Here (Exclusive)
People via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWell, not exactly normal — the post-war economy was booming. The middle class had gotten a buff and...
Trump Advisers Call for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing if He Is Elected
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAllies of Donald Trump are proposing that the United States restart the testing of nuclear weapons...
At the Paris Olympics, it will no longer be personal for Ukraine's athletes. This time, it's war
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFor Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova, each stride on the Paris Olympic track will have meaning far...
The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSELMA, Ala. — By early this year, around the time a prosecutor called President Joe Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Vice...
Children’s hospital hit in Kyiv as missile strikes across Ukraine kill at least 33
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBlood spattered the floor in one room. Medical personnel and local people helped shift the rubble as...
Photos: What It Looked Like When Paris Hosted the Olympic Games in 1900
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIn 1900, the Games of the II Olympiad found a home in the City of Love as part of the World’s...
Book Review: Kate Quinn returns with 'The Briar Club,’ a murder mystery during the 1950’s Red Scare
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJoseph McCarthy’s Red Scare. Each gives Quinn an opportunity to comment on some aspect of the decade...
14 Fantastic Facts About the Fourth of July
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFireworks Flew at the First 4th Americans wasted no time in celebrating the first Independence Day on July 4, 1777, even though the Revolutionary War...
Biden tries but fails to turn back rising tide threatening to swamp his reelection bid
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIf Biden does get out, he’ll probably be insisting he’s in until the final moments. — CNN’s Jeff...