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National Safe Motherhood Day is observed on April 11 each year in India, to raise awareness about the importance of maternal health.

This year's 25-cent "book" sale includes everything from an 1873 copy of the "The Odyssey" to DVDs for Disney's three "Frozen" movies.

It is an honour, a privilege and a joy to give my thoughts and words to my brothers and sisters in our fight to preserve our identity, our history, our national culture, the honour of our ancestors, our freedoms, our health, our individuality, our spirituality, our families, our lives, our private parts and our species, in the face of the most insidious attack on them all, perpetrated through our own governments, our own public servants, our own police force that used to be the best in the world, our own banks that not 50 years ago were the largest in the world, our own intel agencies that use...

Some of the most popular metaphoric sayings used in everyday conversations have known histories and origin stories. Here are three, including "bite the bullet" and "break a leg."

Reviewed by Doug Gibson In Gary Rhodes’ new book, “Vampires in Silent Cinema,” (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), the author cites a “non-fiction” article in the June 15, 1732 issue of The American Weekly Mercury periodical. In Hungary, it was claimed, “certain Dead Bodies (called here Vampyres) killed several persons by sucking out all their blood.” […]