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There’s nothing like curling up with a good book and a soft cat. Even better is a book with a cat in it.

On the North Atlantic, the ships were small and the trips were long, making it difficult to maintain the land-based social distinctions.

Larsen's 1930 story "Sanctuary" had a similar plot to an earlier British story. So what? Perhaps the tale never really belonged to either writer.

Devadāsīs appealed to a longstanding tradition to argue that they had a legitimate position in their modernizing nation.

In Ancient Rome, swapping one’s regular toga for the dirty, drab robes associated with mourning could request mercy, or communicate resistance.

Two historians consider the field of taxonomy to ask what history can provide science at the bench level.

CB radio was portrayed as a mostly white enthusiasm in its heyday, but Black CB users were active as early as 1959.

It'd be "a step more significant than the colonization of land by our amphibian ancestors some 500 million years ago." But Sagan had reservations.

Sometimes the pursuit of gender equality requires a little witchcraft.