Popsicles
Popsicles are a confection made of fruit juice frozen on a stick. In the 1870s the Ross and Robbins company sold something similar, which they called the Hokey-Pokey. In 1924, Frank Epperson...
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What would be the best prize ever if you were a child burglar? How about milk, Popsicles, paper, crayons and Play-Doh? That's what police say a pair of boys took during two break-ins at a day care ...
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Chinese officials on Tuesday granted Tai Shan, the National Zoo's popular giant panda cub, an extra two years at the Smithsonian Institution park with his parents.Under a panda loan agreement with ...
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Ten white wooden crosses flanked the pulpit of a church where a rural community gathered to mourn 10 relatives killed in a house fire.The prayer service began Wednesday night with the Lord's Prayer...
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Microorganisms locked in Antarctic ice for 100,000 years and more came to life and resumed growing when given warmth and nutrients in a laboratory.Researchers led by Kay Bidle of Rutgers University...
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Forget the Beatles: Elvis Costello’s glorious first 11 albums are being re-released on iTunes next Tuesday, bestowing a decade of jagged and luxuriant and popsicle-sweet pop music upon a new ...
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MTV's "Total Request Live" is no longer totally live. It's another sign of how both the audience and cultural juice have faded for "TRL," once the most influential program on television for music s...
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The clinking sounds of coins and tokens hitting the metal trays of slot machines at Connecticut's two casinos will be gone by the end of the year.Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun are joining ...
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Leyla Safai, 28, sat in the driver’s seat of her pink ice cream truck on 10th Avenue, looking for a Sour Apple Tart in the pile of organic lollipops she’d just emptied into her lap.
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Every so often, Scott Wade will drive his Mini Cooper up and down the rough, gravelly road near his Texas Hill Country home.But Wade isn't taking pass after pass on the inhospitable road to test hi...
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Five days before Lance Cpl. Adam C. Conboy was killed in Iraq, he inspired his own memorial fund.During a Sunday morning phone call from the Anbar province, he described staying 20 men per room in ...
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