Today is Saturday, Aug. 9, the 221st day of 2025. There are 144 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress dropped a nuclear device over Nagasaki; the bombing and subsequent radiation poisoning ...
Before the flowers or the velociraptor, when there was one continent and a single ocean, the sturgeon swam it. Focus on an ancient fish and you're a time traveler. May the full Aquarius moon bring you in touch with that unchanging, eternal core of you. The sturgeon was. The sturgeon is. White ...
Dear Annie: I have a new neighbor who recently moved in. She orders a lot of things online, which I have no problem with. However, there've been times she's had her packages shipped to my house or to other neighbors' homes. Why she does this, I don't know. At first, I had no problem with it ...
Dear Heloise: My elbows are clean but dark. I hate it! What can I do to lighten them up? -- Ruth, in Minnesota Ruth, first, use a loofah or a stiff body brush with lots of soap to scrub your elbows in a circular motion while you shower or bathe, but do not break the skin. Next, cut a lemon in ...
Today is Saturday, Aug. 2, the 214th day of 2025. There are 151 days left in the year. Today in history: On August 2, 1921, a jury in Chicago acquitted seven former members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team and two others of conspiring to defraud the public in the notorious “Black ...
Today is Thursday, July 31, the 212th day of 2025. There are 153 days left in the year. Today in history: On July 31, 2012, at the Summer Olympics in London, swimmer Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic medal, becoming the most decorated Olympian of all time. (He would finish his career with ...