Rawfords Mill near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, was a target of the Luddite movement. / Hulton Archive/GettyImages In the modern ...

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The show about nothing tried to make a show about guns.

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Post, which offered Alpha-Bits, Grape-Nuts, and All-Bran, wanted to secure more breakfast time with consumers. In 1963, company executives believed they had found a solution by building on a packaging ...

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If you’ve heard a kid ask if someone is skibidi (pronounced “skee-bee-dee”), it likely means that they are asking if someone ...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the literal meaning of flash in the pan dates to the late 1600s and refers to a ...