Fernando Mendoza' s rise to the top of college football reads like fiction. Ranked No. 2, 149 nationally coming out of high school, overlooked by nearly every major program, and told no by the sp...
01.01.2026 Marca.com and 1 sites
Conference play is finally here in college basketball. After many long months apart, rival teams will visit each other to the sounds of rowdy student sections jumping on the bleachers. But it follows ...
01.02.2026 Espn.co.uk and 1 sitesWith Spain being named not only the best place to retire abroad in 2025 but also one of the European countries with the lowest cost of living (not to mention fabulous food and beaches) , picking it as...
01.04.2026 Yahoo.comSome people reduce a trip to France to nothing more than luxurious hotels in Paris with Eiffel Tower views. While that's pretty much non-negotiable for first-time visitors, seasoned travelers should e...
12.30.2025 Yahoo.com and 1 sites
The world is a mysterious place, which gives Live Science plenty of fodder for our popular Life's Little Mysteries series that runs every weekend. We've been writing mysteries since 2004, and we still haven't run out of weird things to cover. Each mystery comes with a multitude of facts, like which animals are evolving the fastest and why Australia has so many venomous animals . Honestly, we could go on, but we'd have to link to our thousands of mysteries. So, for your geeking-out pleasure, we'v...
01.04.2026 Livescience.com and 2 sites
The Washington Monument is set to shine bright on New Year's Eve and serve as 'the world's tallest birthday candle, ' kicking off a yearlong celebration marking the 250th anniversary of America's foun...
12.31.2025 Livemint.com and 2 sites
Somebody buttonholed Tournament of Roses President Robert Cheney at a recent meeting and tried to read him the riot act about the crimes of Columbus, whose arrival in the New World 500 years ago will ...
01.01.2026 Latimes.com
From quite early in life, I picked up the intellectual habit of probing the intellects of great thinkers, and there are a whole tribe of them that I came into contact with right from my secondary to u...
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On this date — Jan. 2 — in 1492, the Spanish Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella captured Granada and received the surrender of King Boabdil, marking the end of eight centuries of Christian recon...
01.02.2026 Pjmedia.com
---- By Victor Block In 1503, Christopher Columbus came upon a group of islands in what today is known as the Caribbean Sea. The Arawak-Taino people who lived there called the atolls caiman (crocodile) because of the many semiaquatic reptiles with wh...
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