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Who Knew? Maryland’s state dessert, smith island cake,dates back to the 1800s, when women made the multi- layered yellow cakes t ...

But that didn’t stop this fictional spokesperson, a creation of the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis (later bought by Gene ...

Use as part of a healthy diet. Ensure® Original 8 fl oz = 15g sugar vs Ensure® Max Protein 11 fl oz = 1g sugar. ©2019 Abbott La ...

chunks with the delicious outer smoked char and the succulent inner meat.” —Reader DeAnna Anderson, Pleasant Hill, Missouri Who ...

©2019 Daisy Brand, LLC. Yes, please! COTTAGE CHEESE ...

Who Knew? Samuel Kaymen and Gary Hirshberg were running out of money for their organic farming school, Stonyfield Farm, in 1983. ...

Clarence Crane came up with a sweet that could stand up to the heat. Crane borrowed a machine used by pharmacists to make pills ...

shredded onions to make a small hamburger go a little further. Oregon Signature dish: tofurky. For decades, Tofurky has been a s ...

Who Knew? Native Americans have long eaten dried meat with cran- berries for sustenance. The Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Res ...

“Every local burger joint has fry sauce ready for you. I’ve seen other Utah residents try to make their own with little packets ...

fish for salmon. One year, I went out with the boys and got seasick—bad. But one taste and it was all worth it.” —Elizabeth Bram ...

By Doug Stanton from the new york times MILITARY LIFE 70 july/august 2019 ...

Survivors of the USS Indianapolis spent days bobbing in the sea, enduring sharks, blistering sun, and dehydration. How they cond ...

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis and the wo ...

ONLY 316 SURVIVED, including this officer (right) recuperating at the Peleliu Hospital. Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the m ...

THE 1945 INDIANAPOLIS crew greets sailors on the ship’s new version, launched in 2018. He Said, She Said The only person who lis ...

When the officer stopped in front of me during inspection, I sharply opened the chamber of my rifle and thrust it into his hands ...

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By Derek Burnett When disaster strands two American tourists in the jungle, unable to walk and unlikely to be found, they have o ...

imee Spevak was supposed to be working. Actually, she was supposed to be on vacation—she had rented a cabin in the Pocono Mounta ...