Sending data on the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable cost $10 a word -- in 1866. Wired, February, 2007

83: Annual budget of Miami's police department, expressed as a percentage of the production cost of the film Miami Vice. Harper's M...

Dallas celebrated its twenty-ninth annual Tuba Christmas at noon Friday in Thanksgiving Square. And we were there ! One hundred eighty se...

Rice Bowl. Those two words have not been used in the context of Rice University and football bowl games since 1961. John F. Kennedy was Pres...

Berkner High School's "Mighty Ram Band" advanced to the Texas state marching contest last night at the Area C finals.

The Berkner Rams lost a regular-season football game Friday night. That hasn't happened since September 24, 2004, a span of 20 games and...

We saw a lot of highway in September. It was north to Chicago to move John to Northwestern University, with side trips to Wisconsin and Indi...

Due to strict age requirements (too strict, if you ask me), I have finally accepted the fact that I will never achieve my dream of beco...

Every person in the continental U.S. lives within one mile of an owl. Jonathan Franzen (Time, August 28, 2006)

There are some 45,000 items in the average American supermarket, and more than a quarter of them contain corn. Smithsonian, July, 2006