Cheap paperback books are like sex: They claim attention, elicit memories good and bad, and get talked about endlessly. The mid-20th century was the era of pulp, which landed in America in 1939. You could pick up these paper-bound books at the corner drugstore or bus station for a quarter. They had juicy covers featuring original (and sometimes provocative) art, blurring the lines between canonical literature (Emily Brontë and Honoré de Balzac) and the low genres of crime, romance, and Westerns.

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Have you ever witnessed a tsunami-like cloud formation in the sky or fog racing towards you? Or perhaps a funnel cloud that seemed like a tornado in the making? Before you panic, it’s likely that you were observing a Scud Cloud — a fascinating and often misunderstood weather occurrence. The term “Scud” is an acronym for “Stratocumulus Under Deck,” indicating that these clouds form at low heights, have a fluffy appearance, and produce little rain. Essentially, they are low-lying Stratocumulus clouds with unique wispy, finger-like shapes that almost touch the ground, forming below other cloud layers.

Ice Spice is a renowned rapper, singer, and songwriter from the United States. She rose to fame after her hit song Much (Feelin' U) went viral on TikTok in 2022. Many of her fans are curious to know more about her personal life, especially her parents. Who are Ice Spice's parents? Ice Spice started rapping in 2021 while studying communication at SUNY Purchase. Since then, she has released songs like Deli, Princess Diana and Like.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has reportedly deviced a means to block off former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and immediate past Senate President, Bukola Saraki and some others from emerging the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to multiple sources from within the PDP, Wike is in support of zoning the party’s ticket to the south and picking a much younger candidate which is what informed his move against the northern aspirants.