Kidnapping senior officers and prominent civilians was par for the course during the American Revolutionary War.

Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here’s how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

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In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He ...

As far back as the early 1600s, Hamburger referred to any person from Hamburg, Germany. The city has a centuries-long history ...

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The Miami airport has a 3D scanner. / Joe Raedle/GettyImages Shoes on or off? Laptop in a separate bin or left in your bag? ID and boarding pass, or just ID? It can often feel like the answers to ...

An Austrian winemaker renovating his cellar unearthed a trove of woolly mammoth bones that could expand our understanding of ...

The western blacklegged tick is found across the Pacific coast, especially in northern areas of California. Like the blacklegged ticks found out East, this species also spreads illnesses like ...

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Dogpatch USA opened in the Ozarks of northern Arkansas in 1968. Themed around Al Capp's popular Lil Abner comic strip, the ...

The hottest beach read of 1974 almost came with a real shark tooth.