Tommy’s parents split up in the early 1980s and he moved with his mom to Iowa in 1985. Four decades later, Tom is still there, now a teacher and coach with a wife and three kids. Iowa is Cubs Country, ...

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A 12-year-old South Korean boy with an IQ of 204 has applied to Oxford University, months after leaving high school following bullying and frustration with what he described as rigid, mechanical ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul. Work by Ingres. It was during this period that he came into contact with the theorems. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons His political stance allowed him to ...