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Owner of Thornton Distilling Company in Illinois uncovered a loaded, century-old pistol sealed inside an underground ...

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Bethenny Frankel is convinced towels from a resort in St. Barts caused a deeply uncomfortable facial bacterial infection. “So I had a bacterial infection from towels,” the “RHONY” alum said in a ...

Older homes in the South were typically built over a crawl space rather than a finished basement. Even today, many homes don't include a finished basement because of our damp, Southern soils. What you ...

Contributed by Terence Hwa; received December 27, 2024; accepted March 21, 2025; reviewed by Vickery L. Arcus and Seppe Kuehn ...