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Lacrosse: The Fastest Growing Sport in America

Jacob Brandt — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:38:31 +0000

As America’s fastest growing and oldest sport, many might find themselves choosing to play lacrosse this season over football or soccer. With a long and often unknown history in North America, this originally Iroquois field sport has been rapidly growing in popularity and will soon be found in your high-school. In our age of technological […]

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Goodbye BC and AD, Hello CE and BCE?

Andy Kilpatric — Fri, 06 May 2016 12:17:36 +0000

It’s what we all learned in school: history is divided into two periods, BC and AD. BC stood for Before Christ and AD stood for… well, we were never really sure, but we knew it sort of meant "after Christ" (it actually stands for Anno Domini, Latin for "the year of our Lord.") But now […]

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Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: A Real Place

Jillian Obenhimer — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:32:29 +0000

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump may sound more like a rock band than a real location where a people created thousand of years of history. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Alberta Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump was (and is) of great importance to the indigenous Blackfoot people. The location fell into disuse the mid-19th […]

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Christian Symbolism Behind Why Easter is Celebrated in the Spring

Sara Smith — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:25:28 +0000

Have you ever wondered why the Church holds important holidays on the specific days that they do? Take Easter for example. Is it just an arbitrary day that a council agreed upon, or is there a deeper, more important meaning hidden behind a date? Many of the reasons Easter is celebrated in the spring are […]

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How to Handle Conflicts in Romantic Relationships

Cassy Fitzgerld — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 12:11:46 +0000

If you think you can have a love relationship with conflict, think again. The real key to lasting relationships is the ability to deal with disagreements and conflicts. That’s because no matter who you are, nor how much you are in love, in time there will be disagreements. The key is to not allow trivial […]

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Seven Reasons to Get Your Taxes Done Early

Sara Smith — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 06:44:28 +0000

For people who dread tax time, it’s tempting to put off dealing with tax preparation until the last possible minute. Why rush? Believe it or not, there are actually several good reasons to get your taxes done early. 1. Thwart Identity Theft It only takes a Social Security number. With that, a criminal can steal […]

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Rainbow of Spirituality: Choosing Healing Colors

Maryann Sabo — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:44:08 +0000

Choice of color is something that affects us all in our day-to-day lives without us often even realizing. For example, the color of your favorite sweater, the color schemes in your home or the color of your new car. We instinctively make these choices, and in fact color plays an important part in not only […]

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Beyond Phishing – Vishing and Smishing

Bob Casiveties — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:29:14 +0000

You are probably already familiar with phishing, which leverages the trust people have in email to trick them into visiting fake websites and providing confidential information. If you have ever received a legitimate-looking email purporting to be from your bank, you may have been the target of a phishing attack. The sophistication of those fake […]

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Ancient Mystery: The Megaliths World Wide

Christopher Shields — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:20:58 +0000

When most people think of megaliths, the first image that likely pops into their mind is of Stonehenge, and perhaps, if they are slightly more interested in the subject, the Moai of Easter Island. While these represent two of the most popular and well-known megalithic structures in the world, they are far from the only […]

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The Strange Story of Pringles

Alice Guevara — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:29:05 +0000

Pringles is undoubtedly one of the world’s most recognizable snack brands. But the account of how these ubiquitous chips came into existence is a fascinating story … and not widely unknown. The story goes that, in 1956, consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble, tired of complaints that their existing potato chips were often found to […]

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