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Inside the inner office of Kansas coach Bill Self, where every object tells his story
Kansas City Star via Yahoo Canada Sports· 14 hours agoBill Self spent some 90 minutes with The Star annotating the memorabilia around him in his office,...
What We Are Owed | Essence
Essence· 6 days ago“That big yellow bulldozer pulled up in front of our house on a Friday,” remembers Lawrence Williams, who ran inside to fetch his mother. The city itself...
Yahoo Sports AM: What are the odds?
Yahoo Sports· 1 day agoBaseball, but different: Rather than using the established "Knickerbocker rules," the teams used the recently-developed "Massachusetts rules." The field...
Who won the Biden-Trump debate? Biden's freeze draws age concerns
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 5 days agoEven some of Biden's Democratic supporters felt his freeze on stage and his somewhat wooden...
How the 1904 Marathon Became One of the Weirdest Olympic Events of All Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoAlthough there were moments of surprising and genuine triumph (George Eyser, a gymnast with a wooden...
The bizarre social history of beds
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoToday’s beds are thought of as bastions of privacy. But not long ago, they were the perches from which kings ruled and places where travelers hunkered...
Two brothers and 16 sticks of dynamite: The bombing of the L.A. Times
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 7 days agoAbout 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks...
A Professional Organizer Shares What to Do with Trinkets Cluttering Your Shelves
Better Homes & Gardens· 7 days agoIf you’ve embraced the maximalism design style, you’re probably unbothered by seeing trinkets,...
The 84-Year-Old Visionary With One Answer for Two Real Estate Crises
New York Times· 5 days agoWhen Liberty Tower went up for sale in Manhattan’s financial district in 1978, there was only one...
Ismail Kadare: A bright light in Albania’s darkest days
Digital Journal· 2 days agoNovelist Ismail Kadare — who has died aged 88 — used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive...
