She was a physicist, too—and there is evidence that she contributed significantly to his groundbreaking science.

The incident happened in Tasmania, Australia, where a man intended to catch a footage of ghost in his house had caught footage far worse—his de facto 10-year girlfriend having sex with his own son. According to Telegraph UK, the woman, cannot be named due…

1994 vampire film by Neil Jordan

Deion Sanders is an athlete who played professional football and baseball and is the only person to play in both a Super Bowl and the World Series.

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During its 34 years of service, the SR-71 gathered intelligence in some of the w...

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In 1960, 8-year-old Australian boy Graeme Thorne was abducted and murdered. His kidnapper demanded a ransom of part of the money that his parents, Bazil Thorne and Freda Thorne, had won in an Opera House lottery. The crime, regarded as one of the most infamous…

For some time the question of the religious faith of the Founding Fathers has generated a culture war in the United States. Scholars trained in research universities have generally argued that the majority of the Founders were religious rationalists or Unitarians.…

An excerpt from Alexander Fleming's 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech for his, Howard Florey, Ernst Chain's discovery of Penicillin.

From the blue-ringed octopus’s perspective, your breathless screaming and vomiting aren’t her fault. This little lady—barely the length of a pencil,...

Abigail Disney, heiress to the Disney fortune, on being raised with wealth.

CBC North's Igalaaq is an Inuktitut news show, that anchor Madeleine Allakariallak translates live on the air.

DEEP in a ba­nana plan­ta­tion at Tullera, near Lis­more, sits an un­likely pair of mates, each cov­ered in sweat and red soil, tend­ing to their grow­ing share-crop of Hawai­ian sweet pota­toes, taro and cas­sava – crops des­tined for Bris­bane’s Pa­cific…

Only now are the sacrifices made by thousands of Indians who lost their lives in WW1 beginning to be remembered, writes Shashi Tharoor.

"Beat It" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson from his sixth studio album, Thriller (1982). It was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. Jones encouraged Jackson to include a rock song on the album, though Jackson had never…

If the last three German Grands Prix are anything to judge by, Dani Pedrosa should head to the Sachsenring with much confidence. However, as the 2008 race told the Spaniard, nothing is ever certain in motorcycle racing…

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The Moriori are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori), New Zealand. Moriori originated from Māori settlers from the New Zealand mainland around the year 1500. This was near the time of the shift from…

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