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Pilots and air traffic controllers saying "tree," "fife," and "niner" instead of three, five, and nine. What is that about?

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Palu, who is now the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) chief executive, was presenting his paper about various international funding that Tonga could tap into. He used his own ...

Hmong is a language with a strong oral tradition and was not formally written until the 1950s. A new audiobook aims to meet ...

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When it comes to naming a hurricane, not every name has what it takes. Could a hurricane ever be named Mortimer, Nixon or Helene?