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Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to make text look like it's written in fine, beach sand from scratch. This effect also works with black-on-white graphics, as well.

EXPLAIN EMILY. WELL, MARIA, THIS IS A STORY THAT STARTS NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO IN WEST NEWBURY, WHEN A THEN 14 YEAR OLD STUDENT PENNED A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE AS PART OF A CLASS PROJECT. DECADES LATER, HE ...

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The first SMS text message was sent on December 3, 1992. Part of an early Vodafone test, the message was sent from a computer to a GSM handset on the carrier’s network. That first text read: “Merry ...

An archaeologist was shocked when he discovered a message in a bottle from over 150 years ago when digging at an old Viking graveyard. Norwegian historian Jacob Bredesen captured the moment the bottle ...

In 1874, the Bergen Museum on Norway’s southwestern coast appointed its first archaeologist and conservator. Though only 28 years old, Anders Lorange was making a name for himself by searching for ...

Some taxpayers who wanted to check the status of their application for the 2021 ANCHOR benefit said they couldn’t get through on the system. They received a message saying: “The ANCHOR application ...

In “The Message,” Coates grapples with questions about which stories are told, and how, through his visits to Senegal, South Carolina and the West Bank. By Anderson Tepper Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ...

Volunteers on an archaeological dig in the ruins of an ancient Gaulish village high above the cliffs in northern France this week uncovered a small glass vial —and within it a neatly rolled, ...