Jamie Frater

The year 2024 has seen a horrifying variety of natural disasters resulting in tragic deaths and destruction that have shocked the world. Events, including everything from earthquakes to hurricanes and landslides, have left in their wake grieving survivors and destroyed homes and livelihoods. Of course, natural disasters have afflicted humanity since the dawn of time—but now we have a sinister extra factor to contend with: climate change.

If there's one thing that pretty much everybody is in agreement on, it's that grammar snobs are, well, snobby. It's right there in the name! Linguists, writers, copy editors, line editors, and all the rest of 'em (you know… nerds!) have a very particular way of doing things. And when it comes to language and word usage, that is their domain. So, if you have any of them in your lives out there, you certainly know they feel a particular way about the dictionary. To the rest of us, that's a miserable slog. To them, it's enthralling.

Crossing the United States from coast to coast is a challenge that has captivated adventurers, dreamers, and record-breakers for centuries. The vast expanse of the country, stretching thousands of miles from ocean to ocean, has served as both a proving ground for physical endurance and a blank canvas for creative, unconventional feats of travel.

Heroes usually need villains to fight. Writers regularly rack their brains trying to concoct worthy adversaries. Who can offer an intriguing contrast with

In the vast expanse of the internet, Google is the go-to search engine for billions of people every day. However, Google's dominance can overshadow many unique alternative search engines. These lesser-known platforms often cater to specific needs, providing tools and capabilities that Google doesn't offer.

The night sky holds countless celestial wonders, but few are as captivating as the moons of our solar system. While Earth boasts just one moon, other planets have entire families of moons, each unique in its size, composition, and history. These natural satellites range from small, rocky chunks to massive, planet-like bodies with complex surfaces and even atmospheres.

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Jamestown, Virginia, is a pretty cool place. After all, it was the first permanent English settlement ever established in the New World. And since it was first settled in 1607, it has some pretty incredible history tied to it. The very founding of the United States of America links all the way back to Jamestown. The first English speakers to ever call our continent home put down their roots there. Today, families still boast about being direct descendants of those folks. Patriotic and pride-inducing, right?

When many people think about high-tech crime, they picture people sitting in front of several computer screens in a dark room and bashing away on their keyboard. Sadly for society, criminals do not share most people's lack of imagination when they think about possible crimes. Hacking is certainly one of the forms that high-tech crime can take, but ambitious yet ill-intentioned individuals have come up with all kinds of more creative ones.

Competition among social media influencers to gain subscribers is intense because more subscribers equals more advertisers, which, in turn, equals a bigger income. Partly for this reason, those who operate social media platforms sometimes perform ill-advised, reckless, and dangerous stunts. The ten social media stunts on this list led to arrests on various charges and, in some cases, to significant property damage, serious injury, and even death.