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It turns out that praying on the water has some serious downsides.

How do you keep a flamingo flock safe in a major storm?

Only one car salesman enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright as his designer.

Nightly garbage feedings, roadside gangster bears, and a public "Bear Lunch Counter" were a deliberate strategy to help set the park apart.

Lovesick? Fighting with friends? Get advice from the ancients.

This 1602 colonizing mission to New England was ridiculed for only lasting three weeks.

Meet The Guberif, Johnny Horizon, Howdy The Good Outdoor Manners Raccoon, and more!

In the 1880s, Iowa wanted the world to know it was the king of coal.

The storied Bay Area restaurant has been reduced to a giant dog's head.

And then went on to become the Arm Wrestling Capital of the World.

And other fragrant underwater tales.

Our many technological failures inspire the question—should we even fight?

Thomas Downing, a freed slave, built one of New York City's most famous restaurants of the 19th century—which doubled as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

It's a surprisingly competitive contest that began in the '70s.

The 198,000-square-mile (!) swarm was last seen in 1902.

The Bay Area used to have an epic American Indian burial site-turned-amusement park until a mall came.

By combining experiments and observations with rigorous empathy, animal well-being experts can go Doctor Doolittle.

The warrior queen fought colonizers for decades.