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This TSA Security Line At Chicago Midway Is Basically Hell If we saw this ludicrously long line after bag check, we would probably just give up and go home. May 13, 2016 at 03:19PM

The Article of the day for May 14, 2016 is Eardwulf of Northumbria . Eardwulf was king of Northumbria from 796 until at least 806. Northumbria in the last years of the eighth century was the scene of dynastic strife between several noble families, and in 790, Æthelred I attempted to have Eardwulf assassinated. Æthelred himself was assassinated in 796. The reign of his successor Osbald lasted only twenty-seven days before he was deposed, and Eardwulf became king on 14 May 796. In 798 Eardwulf fought a battle at Billington Moor against a nobleman named Wada, who had been one of those responsible for King Æthelred's death; Wada was defeated and driven into exile. In 801 Eardwulf led an army against Coenwulf of Mercia, perhaps because of Coenwulf's support for other claimants to the Northumbrian throne. Eardwulf was deposed in 806. According to a Frankish source, he returned to his kingdom in 808, but no record has survived of his death or the end of his reign. He was possibly bur...

This TSA Security Line At Chicago Midway Is Basically Hell

The case of the $629 Band-Aid - and what it reveals about American health care Last January, Malcolm Bird took his 1-year-old daughter, Colette, to the local emergency room for a cut on her finger. Colette turned out to be completely fine, needing only a Band-Aid. A $629 Band-Aid, it turned out.

The case of the $629 Band-Aid - and what it reveals about American health care

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Word of the day is presage : (transitive) To predict or foretell something. (intransitive) To make a prediction. (transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.