1857 Olive Oatman Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Olive Oatman was born in Illinois in 1837. In 1850, when she was 14, her family (parents Royce and Mary Oatman and their seven children) joined a wagon train to travel from Utah to California. Various disagreements along the way me
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Welcome to Throwback Tunesday, where Mashable amplifies the echoes of music past. With genre trends and throwbacks, we synthesize music and nostalgia. Nine albums and almost two decades in, San Diego-based alt rockers Switchfoot have been around the block. You may recall their early 2000s hits “Da
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One-time Gleeks who quit the club: The final season might be the time to sign up once agin At least, that's the impression given by the former network Golden Child's Friday season premiere episode See also: Lea Michele belts out 'Let it Go' on 'Glee' season premiere In the episode, Rachel (Lea Miche
The odds of creating a successful app are long, but the rewards are great, as developer Carlos Ribas can attest. Ribas's app, HoursTracker, has been available in Apple's App Store since 2009 but it's still bringing in five figures a month. The income is more than Ribas says he can make from a full-t
There is no better time of year to for reading than Winter. The season's cold temperatures and long nights make for the perfect setting to curl up with a book. For the past month, our social book club MashableReads has cozied up with December's book selection, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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2014 was a good year for first-time authors Relatively unknown writers turned out promising book debuts, and beloved entertainers and Internet personalities delved into the literary world for the first time. Not to mention prolific writers like Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood, who continued to b
Some babies are just too bold for a normal name. A man named Jack Daniels Leathers and his wife, Lydia Leathers of Gray, Louisiana, have named their newborn son Jim Beam, continuing the tradition of naming their family's very classy tradition of naming their children after American alcohol. See also
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