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Think you know what "Hotel California" is supposed to be about? Go ahead and cross-reference it to Joe Walsh's explanation.

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As 2025 comes to an end, NHPR is celebrating the holiday season with a rich lineup of festive programming, musical traditions ...

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After watching the many viral videos of birds happily singing to their humans, it 100% makes sense to me that this is a skill ...

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With 'ragebait' the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year, here's a look at what footballing equivalents might have been since 2000 ...