Education

Get ready for a blast from the past—Y2K style.

The nationally recognized celebration of African culture and community spans the seven days from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.

Book bans are hardly a new practice.

Entertainment Today: Watches television shows about people gossiping, fighting, and having sex. Entertainment in 1884: Gossiping, fighting, and having sex.

In 1936, someone got bragging rights to having the lowest possible Social Security Number—but only after several others turned it down.

Talking loudly to drown out another student, fooling around mid-lesson, mocking a classmate's incorrect answer — tales of disrespectful behaviour in today's classrooms abound.

When did we know that the #MeToo moment was truly over?

Like many middle-aged women I know, I spent my summer parsing the rallying calls of personhood and artmaking ringing out from the new roster of divorce books—books like All Fours by Miranda July, Liars by Sarah Manguso, and Splinters by Leslie Jamison.

Dzan, Mexico – Surrounded by dense jungle and beneath intertwining canopies of towering trees, Luis May Ku, 49, trudges ahead through shoulder-height bushes searching for a rare plant.

There’s​ no ‘s’ at the end of ‘rule’, and there’s a comma before it. As every schoolboy pedant knows, it’s ‘Britannia, rule the waves!’ – an imperative or exhortation, not a statement of fact.