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A little history about the beverage originally known as Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.

Alvin Ward












The Blue Boy has been using his defiant stare and unique fashion sense to transfix viewers for centuries. But even art fans may not know the story of Thomas Gainsborough’s most iconic work is nearly as rich as the fabric of his subject’s blue britches.

Kristy Puchko
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Today the lost and found department of the United States Postal Service is called the Mail Recovery Center, which isn’t a very evocative name. But it used to be called the Dead Letter Office, and at the turn of the last century, a widow named Patti Lyle C

Bess Lovejoy