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Radical roots of Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all! It's a grand celebration of moms, grandmoms, great-grandmoms, aunts, sisters and cousins. It also has a grand -...
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Legendary video game Castlevania turns 25 years old

Back in 1987, the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) home video game console was still a relative novelty in North America, having been...
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Arcade classic Dig Dug turns 30 years old

There was a time in gaming history when, rather than millions of console players logging into online multiplayer on the latest first-person shooter...
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Chicago news anchor making history

FOX Chicago’s Robin Robinson is the city’s longest serving black female news anchor.All combined, she has over 30 years in the industry...
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20 years later, The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past still shines

How often does a video game’s title become a self-fulfilling prophecy?Such appears to have happened for one of Nintendo’s all-time...
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Gaming computer ZX Spectrum turns 30 years old

On the 23rd of April in the year 1982, the ZX Spectrum 8-bit personal computer was released in the United Kingdom by Sinclair Research Ltd., a...
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Reagan surpasses Lincoln in museum attendance

They are often linked in polls and have the state of Illinois in common. They are President Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.Meanwhile, The Land...
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DUB STEP! HECK YEAH!

The problem with any form of music when it hits the mainstream is that there’s the inevitable dweeb who insists on belittling it...
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Happy 175th birthday, Chicago!

If you’ve got the window propped open a bit during this mild early-March day in Chicago and think you smell the scent of cake batter or...
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History of chocolate

Chocolate is one of the worlds seven wonders. It brings joy to most, and can put a smile on just about any kid. It'sadded tomilk, eaten with...
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