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The Naked Gun has the potential to resurrect the big-screen comedy, and if the trailer is any indication, it just might.
The success of To Kill a Mockingbird overwhelmed Harper Lee. Donald Uhrbrock / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images To spend an hour in Monroeville, Alabama, is to know why Harper Lee, the author of ...
For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small town gossip and politics ...
Sometimes, when school, family, friends and just ... life get a little too much, we need to find comfort in the familiar. For some of us, that comes from pages of books we can read over and over ...
The impact blew away the vines that had wrapped around its branches, and the lightning struck the tree with enough force to kill more than a dozen nearby trees. The tree was virtually unscathed.
Florida lawmakers are considering bills to replace the mockingbird with the flamingo ... little birds that steal other birds’ eggs and kill the babies of other birds." Hammer has accused scrub ...
James Foster/For the Sun-Times Share Illinois is closer than ever to becoming a no-kill state for pets in shelters, and every resident can play a role in making it happen. Two-thirds of Illinois ...
Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...
Learn how to kill a tree safely and effectively to eliminate invasive, unsightly, or improperly placed trees. There are lots of reasons to plant new trees, but sometimes you need to know how to ...
Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate every year. But the opposite appears to be the case for the towering tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera), a native of the rainforests of Panama that ...
The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its ...