"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." (Martin Luther) Martin Luther found peace when he married an ex-nun named Katharine von Bora ...

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It is important to establish parents' legal status and preferences, and also to make your own desires clearly and legally known. Pledge to your local PBS station to support websites like this.

Women typically carry the burden of caregiving. Financial realities and worries are often especially difficult to discuss. Pledge to your local PBS station to support websites like this.

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of ...

Light pollution—the needless shining of bright lights into the night sky—has robbed whole generations of the chance to see nature on its largest scale. It is estimated that as many as eighty percent ...

Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun and the one that has most intrigued humanity over the years. It was named after the god of war because its reddish soil gives the planet a scarlet hue in the night ...

Do You Speak American? has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities. Additional funding is provided by the William and Flora ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated and difficult situation that produced conditions Adolf Hitler could exploit, but Germany's ...

WE’RE ON A JOURNEY THAT TAKES US ACROSS THE USA AND THROUGH THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. NOW WE’RE GOING TO FIND OUT HOW TODAY’S SOUTHERNERS ANSWER THE QUESTION “DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?” THE GREATEST ...

Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He ...

You say potato ....and I say spud. A look at the different schools of thought on language usage.