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The Iowa State Fair has featured a bovine butter sculpture for more than 100 years. Now, the tradition is part of the new ...

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Emily Barske Wood is an Iowa-based journalist. She works part-time as the special projects editor for the Des Moines Business Record, and her work has been published by the Guardian, the Poynter ...

Hundreds of humanoids from 16 countries stumbled over each other while competing in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing ...

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The Golden Age of Aviation of the 1920s and ’30s was characterized by the ascendancy of female pilots — though they had to ...

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost ...