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As it grows, it is known as a waxing moon, and gradually increases from a waxing "crescent" (for its shape into the first quarter moon. As it continues to brighten, it takes on an oblong ...

Its unmistakable entrance is marked by lighting up the sky as a curved sliver of light— the waxing crescent — before revealing its entire face as the full moon. Despite its beauty, this chunk ...

Forget time machines, folks! Wisconsin’s got something better: bookstores that’ll whisk you away faster than you can say ...

Christian Kracht’s book finds a narrator much like the author on a family- and history-haunted road trip with his mother.

The Moon is one of nature's wonders, but to photograph it successfully you first have to understand it. Although astrophotographers specializing in the Moon usually photograph it through a powerful ...

Anne Frank’s diary has become one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, and it remains one of the most introspective, enlightening accounts of what it was like to be a Jewish child living in ...