Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono out of $10,000 by sending her a piece of dried grass instead of a hair from his moustache, according to revelations by a former muse and lover.

Canadian-American actor

Swimmer Adam Walker was simply trying to help the dolphins. The mammals returned the favor in a fashion he may never be able to be repay.Walker found himself swimming New Zealand's Cook Strait as a part of the Oceans Seven mission. The British open-water…

Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arcpronounced [ʒan daʁk]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was…

East Asia News -A Japanese railway company has apologised after one of its train departed 25 seconds early, a mistake which it told commuters was "truly inexcusable".. Read more at straitstimes.com.

common marking and a meme from World War II

American singer, dancer, actress, and author; naturalized citizen of Switzerland

Some ways of doing psychedelics are safer than others.

The author of a new book also says that animals can feel empathy, like the humpback whale that rescued a seal.

5 experiments that might surprise you.

Aztec creation myth

Actors Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart have both broken the Guinness World Records noscript for longest career as a live action Marvel superhero at 16 years 228 days

Dutch book lovers got free rail travel across their country’s entire network this weekend as part of the Netherlands’ annual book week celebrations. Every year since 1932 the Netherlands has

Ford’s profit-sharing scheme was billed as the key to social harmony. Yet socialism and the Russian Revolution, coming just four years later, breathed a new spirit into the American class struggle.

Dogs, jaguars, deer, monkeys, moths, and numerous other creatures, seem to want to take psychedelic substances as much as we humans do.

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

I am constantly on the lookout for research studies conducted on the subject of theft by employees. A few years ago, I came across a study conducted by Kessler International, a forensic accounting and investigative firm. In a press release from 2013, I found…

English novelist

The history of malaria stretches from its prehistoric origin as a zoonotic disease in the primates of Africa through to the 21st century. A widespread and potentially lethal human infectious disease, at its peak malaria infested every continent, except Antarctica.…

actor (1925-2015)