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Fall is the season for coziness, comfort food, and our Athens apartment rentals to enjoy the last of nature’s best weather. Regardless of whether the leaves around you change or not, fall is a time to take advantage of all the outdoor activities you can squeeze in. The best part? So many of these …

Some people living in 2 bedrooms Athens Ohio think they only need sunscreen when they are going to the beach. Other people going to Ohio University know they should be wearing sunscreen every day, but they don’t. Many people only have their sunscreen handy during the summer months, but you need to wear sunscreen …

With fair and festival season around the corner we thought about digging into popcorn. At Ohio University, many students enjoy eating popcorn in their houses near campus. Follow along while we discuss the magical word of popcorn. Houses Near Campus Popcorn is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; …

Parks and Recreation (also known as Parks and Rec) is an American political satire mockumentary sitcom television series created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. The series aired on NBC from April 9, 2009, to February 24, 2015, for 125 episodes, over seven seasons.  The series stars Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, …

A fantasy sport (also known less commonly as rotisserie or roto) is a type of game, often played using the Internet, where participants assemble imaginary or virtual teams composed of proxies of real players of a professional sport. These teams compete based on the statistical performance of those players in actual games. This performance …

Helianthus is a genus comprising about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae commonly known as sunflowers. Except for three South American species, the species of Helianthus are native to North America and Central America. The best-known species is the common sunflower (Helianthus annuus), whose round flower heads …

Radio telephony (telephony without wires) predated cordless phones by at least two decades. The first, MTS, or Mobile Telephone Service went into service in 1946. Because the range was intended to cover the widest possible service area, capacity was extremely low, and the early tube technology made equipment rather large and heavy. The second …

The earliest frames are to be those that surrounded fayum mummy portraits. The stucco frames may have used to hang the portraits in the owner’s home until the time of death, at which point the portrait would have placed over the mummy. Another theory is the portraits painted close to death and around the …

A sugar refinery is a refinery which processes raw sugar from cane or beets into white refined sugar. Many cane sugar mills produce raw sugar, which still contains molasses. This gives it more color (and impurities) than the white sugar you normally consume and use as an ingredient in many foods. Cane sugar does …

Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of “All Hallows’ evening”), less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It begins the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year …