Philip Larkin was directing the University of Hull library while writing “The Whitsun Weddings” (Faber and Faber, 1967) and ...

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Despite helping create modern geek culture as we know it today with Star Wars, George Lucas himself had never attended a single Comic-Con in San Diego in its fifty-year history.

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The remains of 3,500-year-old rice were recently found in Guam — making it the earliest known evidence of rice in Remote Oceania.

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A 2,200-year-old Celtic settlement containing coins and jewelry has been discovered in the Czech Republic.