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The national lottery operator in Norway apologized after at least 47,000 people who won small amounts were mistakenly told they had won much more. ... Read full Story
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A 21-year-old British woman rowed 4,366 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the youngest person to ever do so -- and earning three world records in the process. ... Read full Story
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The newest ride at Ohio's Cedar Point amusement park "experienced a delay" on the first day it opened to the public and left riders stranded in a vertical position for at least 10 minutes. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/30/2025 2:06 PM
A Chinese man known as the Card Architect for his stacking skills broke four Guinness World Records in a matter of days, including one for stacking 3,149 Jenga blocks on a single block placed vertically. ... Read full Story
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An Australian snake catcher responded to a Queensland home where a venomous red-bellied black snake was found hiding out in a resident's closet. ... Read full Story
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An angler out searching for fish in a Massachusetts reservoir ended up capturing something more unusual -- video of a mother bear swimming across the water with two cubs on her back. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/30/2025 11:35 AM
Animal Services officers teamed up with public works employees and members of the public to rescue a family of nine ducklings that fell into a North Carolina storm drain. ... Read full Story
While China's men's soccer team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/27/2025 11:34 AM
A fireball that streaked across the sky over Georgia was identified as a large meteor, and a piece of the space debris crashed through the roof of a home. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/26/2025 1:53 PM
California Highway Patrol officers "quickly hoofed it to the scene" when more than 300 sheep wandered away from their field in Santa Barbara. ... Read full Story
"Shell art isn't a new genre; it's been with us for centuries. The Victorians often framed their family photos with shells. ... The medium also came to the fore in the 1970s when everything was embellished with shells, from photo frames and mirrors to trinket boxes and even furniture." — Stephen Crafti, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 June 2025
Did you know?
Embellish came to English, by way of Anglo-French, from the Latin word bellus, meaning "beautiful." It's in good company: modern language is adorned with bellus descendants. Examples include such classics as beauty, belle, and beau. And the beauty of bellus reaches beyond English: its influence is seen in the French bel, a word meaning "beautiful" that is directly related to the English embellish. And in Spanish, bellus is evidenced in the word bello, also meaning "beautiful."