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Ice Age Europeans carved the same 32 symbols across an entire continent. Were they decorating caves—or building the first written language?

Do you ever wonder why there are Black neighborhoods?” Derek Handley, an associate professor of English, African and African ...

Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

Read on for Saudi Arabia’s World Cup history, records and enduring moments, and follow their journey to the tournament with the latest on their matches, group and coach.

Eddie Waldrep, a candidate for the Academy School District 20 Board of Education, has touted his experience as clinical ...

The word Halloween seems like a good place to start. The Christian holiday All Saints' Day has been celebrated on Nov. 1 for over a thousand years. Another word for "saint" is "hallow" — as in ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. The otherworldly white apparitions are a standby of Halloween celebrations. But they weren't always the stereotypical evil spirits we see in books and ...