Quote of the day by Homer: “There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye, keep house as man and wife confounding…….”

About 2,800 years ago, a blind poet named Homer wrote stories about gods, heroes, and huge seas. We still don’t know if he was one person or a group of storytellers, and scholars still argue about it, but we do know that Homer is known as the “granddaddy” of poetry and the first real precursor…

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Italian town holds historic street battle

A town in northern Italy has started celebrating carnival with its annual Battle of the Oranges where people hurl the fruit at each other for fun. The historic carnival in Ivrea, an old medieval town near Turin, celebrates the legend of Violetta, a miller’s daughter who freed people from a tyrant starving the town. The…

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BBC asks Artemis II crew a question in space

The BBC’s Science Editor Rebecca Morelle has spoken to the four Artemis II astronauts as they journey back home from their dramatic lunar fly-by that saw them travel further from Earth than any other humans. On what is expected to be their final call from the capsule before splashdown on Saturday, mission specialist Christina Koch…

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Bank of America (BAC) earnings Q1 2026

Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20th, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBC Bank of America the nation’s second-largest lender, beat on the top and bottom lines during the first quarter, bolstered by equities sales and trading. Here’s what the…

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