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September 14, 2024

Postcard Arrives 121 Years Late and Reunites Families in Wales

In August 1903, Ewart on the Eastern Coast of Wales sent a postcard to Lydia on the Southern Coast. While the distance between them would only take about an hour and a half to drive today, Ewart’s message took 121 years to arrive. A manager at the Swansea Building Society, a Welsh financial institution, was surprised to receive the much-overdue postcard in August 2024.

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August 27, 2024

National Park Service Receives a Record-High Gift of $100M, the Largest Grant in Its History

Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service (NPS)

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August 16, 2024

Museum Offers Color-Blindness Glasses To Help Visually Impaired Visitors View Art in a New Way

More than 300 million people in the world are color blind, making it far more common than many people realize.

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August 13, 2024

Grandma Shows Off Her Moves as She Spontaneously Joins TikTok Dancers in a Supermarket

The older generation and Gen Z may not always connect on the same level, but one elderly woman is bridging that gap by showing that you’re never too old to have fun. She recently went viral on TikTok after a dancer named Lil Mark shared a video of her spontaneously joining his crew for a dance performance in a supermarket.

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July 19, 2024

22 Tennessee State Parks Provide All-Terrain Wheelchairs to Enhance Accessibility for All

The evolution of technology has increasingly introduced accessible features.

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July 18, 2024

MrBeast’s TeamSeas Initiative Pulls 34 Million Pounds of Trash From the Ocean

Nearly three years ago, MrBeast and TeamSeas started an initiative to raise $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of...

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July 12, 2024

Presidential Library and Museum Will Host Film Festival To Celebrate Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum will host the JC100 Film Festival, a celebratory gathering in honor of former President Jimmy Carter's upcoming 100th birthday. The Plaza Theatre and the Atlanta Film Society will sponsor the event and curate a selection of Carter’s favorite films, which have yet to be announced.

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July 10, 2024

Man Who Mows Lawns for Free Raises Over $188K for Cat Shelter That Helped Him

A man named Spencer began mowing lawns when he was just 11 years old, using his father's push mower to...

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June 26, 2024

105-Year-Old Woman Finally Gets Her Master’s Degree From Stanford

Only a few short generations ago, American women were expected to end any professional aspirations once they married.

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June 14, 2024

98-Year-Old World War II Veteran Finally Gets His High School Diploma

Maryland resident Richard Remp was 17 when he dropped out of high school to enlist in the military during World War II. After this, he remained in the Marines and went on to serve in the Korean War, and then in the Vietnam War as a decorated gunnery sergeant. But despite his distinguished military career, Remp—like so many men and women who served in World War II—never received his high school diploma.

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