Looking at a garment tag can quickly make you feel like you've forgotten how to read. Most of us didn't learn the laundry symbols alongside our ABCs, so these modern-day hieroglyphics can be pretty ...

Q: Every Saturday, The Hartford Courant publishes expanded mutual fund tables. And every Saturday, I am perplexed by the two-letter symbols that appear next to my favorite funds. Could you please ...

Deciphering the symbols on the the cards traded by Chicago gangs in the ’70s and ’80s reveals parts of Chicago’s urban history. Decades later, Brandon Johnson has also been collecting the cards, which ...