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Grab your magnifying glass.

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

Ellen Gutoskey








Clerical workers processing forms for production requirement plan, Priorities Division, War Production Board.

Federal agencies come and go with each new presidential administration. Here are a few notable examples.

Adrienne Crezo
Can you decipher this twisted tune?

It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into English. Can you figure out what the song is, or who performed it?

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“Don’t touch the art” is a simple rule stated at almost every gallery and museum in the world—yet for some reason, there are some who ignore it, and they’ve left a trail of mangled artwork in their wake.

Andrew LaSane








Bruce Springsteen.

In 1975, Bruce Springsteen was at risk of being dropped by his record label. The release of ‘Born to Run’ on August 25, 1975, changed everything—a fact made all the more wild considering how close Springsteen came to scrapping the record completely.

Kenneth Partridge