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"I was very young when I discovered I had a gift for chemistry,'' the hero of "The Young Poisoner's Handbook'' tells us. "Life at home was a stale affair.'' His dreary London suburb of Neasden crouches beneath a sullen sky, and his family sits stupefied before the telly. But up in his room, Graham Young lives in another world entirely, a world of brightly colored chemicals and arcane instructions, and the exciting possibility that a test tube might blow up at any moment. So begins the story of a young man whose bizarre secret life engendered one of t...

Whanganui District Council Youth Committee holds first meeting for 2021 11 May, 2021 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read Whanganui District Council's Youth Committee held its first meeting of the year on Monday. Photo / Ethan Griffiths Whanganui District Council's Youth Committee held its first meeting of the year on Monday. Photo / Ethan Griffiths It was an exciting introduction into the world of governance for Whanganui's newly selected youth councillors on Monday, with 2021's first meeting giving a group of young leaders their first glimpse into the role of council. The Youth Comm...

Maryland archaeologists recently unearthed artifacts that confirmed the location of the home where Harriet Tubman lived with her parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Green, in her youth. Julie M. Schablitsky, the chief archaeologist at the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, made the discovery in March during an excavation in Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. “We could tell from the glaze that the time period coincided perfectly with the Ross cabin,” she said of the ceramic shards found at the site that dated between the 18...

8 ways to increase your home’s value Bankrate 5/4/2021 © David Papazian/Getty Images 6 ways to improve your home’s value With all of us spending more time at home this past year, it’s not surprising that so many took to the already competitive housing market to look for a new place. Some of us, though, stayed exactly where we were, remodeling instead to make the most of the homes we know and love. Whether your goal is to renovate your home this year or sell it, making home improvements can increase your home's value. The real estate experts we spoke to here say the following projec...

Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery State and federal officials announced on Tuesday that they had located the site of the Maryland cabin where the Underground Railroad conductor lived as a young adult. The discovery of a coin from 1808, the year Harriet Tubman’s parents were married, led archaeologists to the site of the cabin.Credit...Maryland Department of Transportation April 20, 2021, 5:38 p.m. ET For at least two decades, historians had been searching for the site of the cabin in which Harriet Tubman lived with her family as a young adult. “Land records told us...