Colman Andrews - Author for 24/7 Wall St.
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Superstitions are folk beliefs, convictions or suspicions that certain behaviors will have good or bad consequences — even though most of us realize, rationally, that there’s no conceivable...
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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the nation suffered 23 separate weather- or climate-based natural disasters in the first eight months of 2023. The number of weather...
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Festivals – often based around music of various genres, but also sometimes focused on dance, film, theater, or other arts – date back to Ancient Greece, with the earliest ones...
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“Barbecue” is a tricky word. It can describe a backyard cooking appliance – a Weber grill, a Big Green Egg, a hibachi. It also means an event at which grilled foods are served, as in...
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More than 17 million Americans can claim Italian descent. The majority of them have origins in southern Italy, and they settled mostly in the Northeast, California, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and...
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Perhaps the most celebrated – and poignant – collaboration ever between a legacy performer and a newer musical star came to an end on Sept. 30, 2021, with the release of “Love for...
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The first fair in the United States, in the sense that we understand the term today, was probably held in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1807; it’s still going strong, as the Berkshire County Fair....
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Over the half of September, residents of the Philadelphia suburbs lived in fear, following the escape of Danilo Cavalcante from Chester County Prison in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Wanted for murder...
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American cooking is as diverse as America itself. Scores and scores of different nationalities, over recent centuries, have populated our country and enriched it with their cultures, languages,...
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