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The World’s Only Ventriloquism Museum is in...

October 31, 2023

In the small town of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, hundreds of dummies – from Shari Lewis’s playful puppet “Lamb Chop” to Jeff Dunham’s fuzzy, purple “Peanut” – line the walls of the only museum in the world dedicated to the art of ventriloquism. Vent Haven Museum opened in 1973, spawned from the personal collection of founder W. S. Berger, who spent many hours backstage with his father, who was a stage actor. While……

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The Family Recipes That Live On in...

October 31, 2023

On a clear day at Nome City Cemetery, you can watch planes take off over the Bering Sea. Within the field of white graves, you might also see a small black obelisk that shines brilliantly when it catches the sun. Getting closer, you’ll note an unmistakable symbol engraved near its base. It’s not a cross, nor a Star of David, but a sacred container of sorts in many American households: a tub of Cool Whip. The grave belongs to……

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Gastro Obscura’s Guide to the Northern Kentucky...

October 31, 2023

Dive into a world filled with flavor and incredible stories at these buzzy stops along The B-Line® bourbon trail – a collection of bourbon distilleries, bars, and restaurants located in Northern Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. Relative newcomers stock hard-to-find vintage bourbons and whiskeys, while generations-old distillers produce today just as those who’ve come before them. You’ll also find elevated restaurants that impress with farm-to-table menus infused with the area’s signature bourbon. The blend of innovation, heritage, and……

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Isobel Gowdie and the Untold History of...

October 31, 2023

In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. In the quiet town of Forres in northern Scotland, jammed between a sidewalk and a stone wall, sits the Witches Stone. Above the worn, wedge-shaped boulder, a sign erected in the 1930s recounts a gruesome execution of a person convicted of witchcraft: The accused was rolled down a hillside in a barrel laden with spikes, their “mangled” remains……

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Rusnák, Morris, Frei help Sounders beat Dallas...

October 31, 2023

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SEATTLE (AP) — Albert Rusnák scored on a first-half penalty kick, Jordan Morris added an insurance goal and Stefan Frei posted his 12th career clean sheet in the postseason as the Seattle Sounders beat FC Dallas 2-0 in a series opener on Monday night. Seattle (15-9-11), the second seed in the Western Conference, is unbeaten in its last 10 matches (5-0-5) and ran its unbeaten streak at home to 18 against No. 7 seed Dallas (11-11-13). The Sounders are…

Seager stars with 2-run HR, stellar defense...

October 31, 2023

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PHOENIX (AP) — Corey Seager launched a two-run homer and made a slick defensive play in the eighth inning to start a crucial double play, Max Scherzer combined with four relievers for a gem on the mound and the Texas Rangers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 to take a 2-1 lead in the World Series on Monday night. Texas overcame injuries to Scherzer and slugger Adolis García in improving to 9-0 on the road this postseason, this time in…

Nikola Jokic posts 107th career triple-double as...

October 31, 2023

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DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 27 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for his second triple-double of the season, Jamal Murray added 18 points and 14 assists, and the Denver Nuggets continued their strong start to the season with a 110-102 win over the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Jokic is tied with LeBron James and Jason Kidd with 107 career triple-doubles. Aaron Gordon scored 21 points, most on thunderous dunks, as Denver extended its season-opening winning streak…

Duchene, Johnston and Dadonov score in 3rd...

October 31, 2023

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DALLAS (AP) — Matt Duchene, Wyatt Johnston and Evgenii Dadonov all scored in the third period and the Dallas Stars beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 on Monday night. Thomas Harley and Roope Hintz also scored, and Jamie Benn and Jason Robertson each had two assists for Dallas, which improved to 5-1-1 this season. Jake Oettinger stopped 22 shots to improve to 8-0-1 in his career against Columbus. Dmitri Voronkov, Damon Severson and Sean Kuraly scored for the Blue…

3 astronauts return to Earth after 6-month...

October 31, 2023

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Tuesday morning after six months aboard China’s orbiting space station. Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao emerged in good health from the return capsule near the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The station’s new three-person crew arrived to the Tiangong station last week. The station is essentially complete, so the new crew will conduct medical…

Zibanejad scores in OT as Rangers beat...

October 31, 2023

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Mika Zibanejad scored 4:34 into overtime, and the New York Rangers beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Monday night for their fifth straight win. Rangers forward Artemi Panarin celebrated his 32nd birthday with a goal and two assists, stretching his season-opening point streak to nine games. Chris Kreider scored his sixth goal for New York, and Igor Shesterkin stopped 27 shots. The Rangers closed out a 5-0 road trip. It was the first time in…

A new record for Math Prize for...

October 30, 2023

Florida Virtual School senior Jessica Wan was the winner of the 15th Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) annual contest for female-identifying contestants, held Oct. 6-8 at MIT. She scored 17 out of 20 questions, which added up to make Wan the MP4G’s most successful contestant in its history; she also won the contest last year and in 2019, as an eighth grader. (MP4G paused for two years at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.) Because Wan had won $82,000……

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Engineers develop an efficient process to make...

October 30, 2023

The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into a stable fuel that can replace fossil fuels in some applications. But most such conversion processes have had problems with low carbon efficiency, or they produce fuels that can be hard to handle, toxic, or flammable. Now, researchers at MIT and……

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Ruins of Fabrica de Chave in Rabil,...

October 30, 2023

The Island of Boa Vista is blessed with an enormous amount of clay that was once the basis of an important industry. Said to have been established by the descendants of enslaved people who were taken to the island to act as goatherds. The Fabrica de Chaves was once the dominant ceramic factory on the island. In the early 20th century, however, the industry collapsed. Once the buildings were no longer maintained they largely fell into ruins. It is……

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Wrocław’s Former City Prison in Wrocław, Poland

October 30, 2023

At the junction of Nożownicza and Więzienna Street, visitors will find a building that dates to the Middle Ages. It happens to be the old city prison. The structure is one of the oldest buildings in the city and was built in the middle of the 14th century. The former main prison rooms were located in the cellars, people of low status as well as the most dangerous criminals were imprisoned there. In the cellars of the eastern wing,……

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Book Review: ‘The Warped Side of Our...

October 30, 2023

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Black holes, wormholes and other mysteries of the universe are so firmly embedded in popular culture — from Carl Sagan’s “Contact” to Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” — that readers with no scientific background have some images in mind when the concepts are mentioned. But in “The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves,” physicist Kip Thorne and artist Lia Halloran find a novel approach to exploring these topics in startling detail….

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