Word of the week: "paraph." It is a handwritten flourish made under a person's signature, once popularly used as a forgery deterrent. Some famous Americans whose autograph often included a paraph: John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Sam Houston and Samuel Morse.

"Trivia Wanted" Category of the Month: Literature. Being a mathematician/statistician by academic training and a reader of nonfiction almost exclusively, your humble trivia author admits to a less-than-deep ...

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