In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…. The opening sentence of The Hobbit is one of the most famous first sentences in all of literature. Simple and short, like its subject, it ignites the imagination the moment we read it. What on earth, and in its comfortable hole in the earth, is a hobbit?
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Like many women, when I was given the birds and bees talk, I was told about hormonal birth control pills as a common method of contraception. Indeed, 14 percent of women take the pill. There’s plenty of controversy to be had around this drug. And to be clear, this is not an anti-contraception article; I
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Writer, speaker, wife, and mother-of-five Kimberly Ells tells the story of the Hadjok family living under communist rule in Hungary before their escape over the Austrian border in The Invincible Family. By day, the two children, Vera and Johan, attended a compulsory state school, which indoctrinated them and all the other students in the tenets
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“Now we’re cooking with gas!” This classic Americanism carries the sense of definite progress, things working according to plan, and being headed to success (perhaps after an uncertain start). It has the same rhetorical heft as “Full steam ahead.” It was popularized by radio stars Bob Hope and Jack Benny in the 1930s, and was
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently disavowed a report from its Richmond field office which attempted to link traditional Catholicism to so-called white supremacy. FBI headquarters provided the following statement to The Washington Examiner on Thursday: While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product — disseminated
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People living in our small town have two hobbies: cruising endless circles around the town square and complaining about living in our small town. Generations of residents in our community have been initiated into grumbling as a rural rite of passage. But, as the Bible says, “Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.
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