The meaning of Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 hit “Ode to Billie Joe” has long been a topic of musical debate. To some listeners, the song refers to a secret teenage pregnancy in the conservative Deep South. To ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Few melodies in the classical canon hold as much name recognition as Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” The beloved tune, set to the words of German poet Friedrich Schiller, comes from the ...

For decades, Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist whose ideas about how the body records pain helped millions find language for their suffering, has been regarded as the world’s leading expert in the ...

UFC flyweight Ode Osbourne nearly handed Steve Erceg his fourth consecutive loss. Just minutes before Anthony Hernandez‘s dominant win in the UFC Vegas 109 headliner, flyweights Steve Erceg and Ode ...

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In the spring of 1944 British special forces and local guerrillas kidnapped Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe, the commander of the German forces occupying the Greek island of Crete. The kidnappers marched ...

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FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates, July 17 (Reuters) - No radio? No problem. The emirate of Fujairah has installed rumble strips along a 750-meter (half-mile) stretch of highway that play the Ode to Joy ...