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Online forums such as Mumsnet, Reddit and Quora are full of threads with guilt-ridden parents who desperately ask if anyone else regrets having children too. YouGov data shows that while the vast majority of parents (83%) insist theyve never felt this way, a small number admit to it. One in twelve parents (8%) say they

This year big-league professional football will be 21 years old. Last week its guardians hired an outsider to manage its man-sized affairs. The new commissioner of big-league football is no white-headed Judge Landis. But the football world last week agreed that no one could be better suited for the job than 37-year-old Elmer Layden, for

Abolition in America stood at a crossroads in the mid-1830s. Reviled in the national press, denounced by demagogues, and attacked by mobs, abolitionists faced unprecedented hostility and violence coordinated by Southerners and their sympathizers in the North. In this climate, the silk merchants Arthur and Lewis Tappanwho provided the financial muscle behind abolition in the

Language is one of the most curious human inventions, but what can you tell about gestures?Yes,body languagehas its own quirks, history and even geographical distribution. What might seem like a harmless joke in one region of the world can be extremely insulting in another. No idea what were talking about? Check out these 15 offensive

Dutch shortstop who made his MLB debut with the Atlanta Braves in 2012, and quickly became one of the league's top defensive shortstops. He played college baseball at Western Oklahoma State College. He played with the Kingdom of Netherlands at the 2012 World Baseball Classic.