At 5 a.m. on May 19th I awoke abruptly to a loud sound just outside the bedroom door. As the cobwebs cleared my mind, I realized I was hearing a whip-poor-will. Having heard whip-poor-wills only five ...

(CNN) — Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species' tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in ...

Westword editors thought Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s new Denver International Airport underground train greeting “begs for the sound of a cracking whip” because the African-American city leader’s ...

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