The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), sometimes also called the Great Oxygenation Event, was a time period when the Earth's atmosphere and the shallow ocean first experienced a rise in oxygen, approximately 2.4–2.0 Ga (billion years ago) during the Paleoproterozoic…

advertising signage

One spring afternoon in 1999, Steve Burns was on his way to a date.He was driving through New Jersey, fighting jitters, primping inthe rearview, when something on the side of the road caught hiseye: a mailbox with blue cartoon paw prints on it and a messagethat…

Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several…

They are among the most famous on-screen duos in history, yet C-3P0 and R2-D2 don’t see eye to eye — and not just because of the height difference. When the principal actors from the original 1977

American songwriter of musicals

This article delineates the age of candidacy laws of the federal government and individual states of the United States.

China makes a tacit admission that it faces an Aids crisis in central China, where more than half a million people are believed to have the HIV virus.

Wikimedia list article

The debate on whether money spent on NASA is worth it can be answered by looking at the ROI from NASA spinoffs.

In the early days of modern warfare, ships protected themselves from German U-boats with wild, eye-catching painted patterns called dazzle. The military moved on to new forms of camo decades ago, but for carmakers, dazzle is still the best way to protect…

former airborne regiment of the Canadian Army

Wheelchair-bound 'The Price is Right' contestant, Danielle Perez, who won a treadmill is speaking out and laughing it all off. She lost her feet in a tragic accident 10 years ago when a trolley car in San Francisco ran over her. #InsideEdition

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the -stan in Afghanistan? I don’t know about the former, but we can thank the Proto-Indo-Europeans for the latter.

A Radio 4 documentary, based on declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide an extraordinary insight into his world.

A British scientist whose schoolmasters told him he was too stupid to study the subject has been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for his pioneering work on cloning.

In 1999, Nicholas White got stuck in the elevator of the McGraw-Hill Building for forty-one hours.

Despite coming from the same plant, cilantro and coriander are quite different. This article explains their differences.

In 1969, when black Americans were still prevented from swimming alongside whites, an episode of 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' broke the color barrier.