My grandmother is a pianist. As often happens, the pendulum swung the other way with my mom, who neither had an interest in taking piano lessons nor in making her kids do so. I vowed to throw the pendulum back the other way with my kids, enrolling them in piano…
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Happy birthday, America!This July Fourth, the USA is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the day when the US formally broke away from England in 1776.A lot has happened in the last two centuries: inventions, wars, pandemics, space travel, to name a few. But there are plenty of things still around today that predate the United States of America.If you got in a time machine and went back to…
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When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce planned a Madison Square Garden wedding, they probably knew it would be a hot ticket — but they might not have realized it would be this hot.The few fans who gathered outside the Manhattan venue Friday afternoon as temperatures hit 97 degrees appeared vastly…
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An 8-year-old Arizona boy celebrating his birthday at Disneyland got the surprise of a lifetime Friday when he was named the California theme park’s honorary 1 billionth guest. Andres Robles and his family, who traveled from Arizona, were greeted by Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse during a ceremony on the…
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Hundreds of famous people flocked to Midtown Manhattan in the midst of a heat wave in honor of America’s biggest power couple.Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were officially wed Friday night Madison Square Garden in New York City, the Associated Press reported.The star-studded event was officiated by Adam Sandler, Swift’s…
