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For millennia, people have celebrated the longest night of the year with these Yule traditions.

People in the past had a way with words when it came to describing activity between the sheets.

The six-sided tool helped make IKEA a household name. But did anyone named Allen have anything to do with it?

Here's how Jesmyn Ward's award-winning novel about Hurricane Katrina came to be.

All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

If you want those Christmas cards to arrive by the holidays, here's what you need to keep in mind.

Airplane passengers might want to pay more attention to that fasten-seatbelt sign.

Shein? Chappell Roan? Kooikerhondje?

When you're drifting outside our planet's magnetosphere, things get complicated.

Holiday gift crazes come and go, but some retro toys like Tickle Me Elmo are as iconic today as they were 30-odd years ago.