Most towns earn their names through careful planning, but some get stuck with something strange because of a joke, a mistake, ...

It's a building zone. And I love it,' says Allison Holdorff Polhill. She and her family are rebuilding their lost home, and ...

Nvidia and AMD shares dropped sharply Tuesday on a report that Meta could buy Google's AI chips. Shares of Nvidia tumbled 6% and AMD lost 10%. Alphabet stock, meanwhile, has surged this week as the ...

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The eminently browsable “Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable” has revealed Ovid’s list of the 50 dogs who were once Actaeon’s best friends. Actaeon, you’ll recall, was the grandson of Cadmus, who ...

The Armenian alphabet is the script developed for the writing of the Armenian language. This alphabetic writing system was developed during the 5th century AD and is still in use today. The Armenian ...

Often the greatest of love letters to a residency, like Woody Allen’s Manhattan, succeed not because they focus solely on the positives of living in a particular place, but because they present the ...

Moriah McDill, Bend author, artist and postpartum doula, came up with the idea of her recent book while walking with a baby along the Deschutes River. After the phrase “D is for Deschutes” popped into ...

The letter B, which wears a captain’s hat, welcomes readers: “Come with me, I’ll show you around this lovely place called Letter Town.” Letter Town—which calls to mind Richard Scarry’s Busytown in ...