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A thought for the day: I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. -- Tom Landry

On this date in history:

In 1807, Robert Fulton began the first American steamboat trip between Albany, N.Y., and New York City.

In 1915, a hurricane struck Galveston, Texas, killing 275 people.
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Those born on this date include:

- French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1601
- frontiersman Davy Crockett in 1786
- movie producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1882
- actor Mae West in 1893
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Today is Thursday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2017 with 136 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning star is Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Mercury.

Q: Several times a day, I get a pop-up on my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone that says "Kskas.apk" is ready to download. I assume this is malicious software, so I always delete the message. But is there any way to stop these pop-...Read more

officious \uh-FISH-uhs\ (adjective) - Marked by excessive eagerness in offering services or advice where they are neither requested nor needed; meddlesome.

"Another officious-looking woman, who looked remarkably like the ...Read more

Words of six letters, anagrams three. Tell me then, what can they be?

The first:
A person that will marry you;
Waiting to hear the words "I do".

The second:
A ghost, a spirit, or fairy;
If it's evil, you'd best be wary.

The third:
What you see when you see a skunk;
Lucky you've not an elephant's trunk.

What are the words?

Conservative protesters scuttled plans to gather outside Google's offices this weekend, putting on hold an effort to take America's culture wars directly to Silicon Valley.

The region was long insulated from political ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Facebook has cracked down on hate speech in the wake of a violent Charlottesville, Va., rally by removing online accounts and posts from white supremacists.

A company spokesperson on Tuesday pointed to...Read more

On this date in history:

In 1812, British forces foiled plans for a U.S. invasion of Canada by capturing the city of Detroit.

In 1896, the North Country gold rush began with the discovery of gold in ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- French physicist Gabriel Lippmann, inventor of color photography, in 1845
- British soldier/writer T.E. Lawrence (subject of Lawrence of Arabia) in 1888
- former ...Read more

hauteur \haw-TUR; (h)oh-\ (noun) - Haughty manner, spirit, or bearing; haughtiness; arrogance.

"The earl's eyes were momentarily hurt, his expression baffled; then he dismissed the emotions and replaced them with cold ...Read more

Make CARP (fish) evolve into GOAT (mammal) by changing one letter at a time. Each change must produce a valid word in the English language. But there is a catch. The evolution must go through NEWT (amphibian) and CROW (bird). No word can be used more than once.

CARP ---- NEWT ---- CROW ---- GOAT

MILWAUKEE--The stew of non-native species known to be swarming in the Great Lakes just got a little thicker.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that a new type of zooplankton, commonly reported in ...Read more

Chilesaurus, a two-legged dinosaur with a Frankenstein-like mix of features, could be the "missing link" that fills a mysterious gap in the dinosaur family tree, a new analysis shows.

The findings, published in the ...Read more