JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - American philanthropist Howard G. Buffett donated $24 million to South Africa’s national parks service on Friday to fund a high-tech campaign against rhino poaching which he compared to the United States’ war on drugs on its southern…

Future President Jimmy Carter files a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) on September 18, 1973, claiming he had seen

Chartreuse (US: /ʃɑːrˈtruːz, -ˈtruːs/ (listen), UK: /-ˈtrɜːz/, French: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) is a French liqueur available in green and yellow versions that differ in taste and alcohol content. The liqueur has been made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to…

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere…

Cartel to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs

subspecies of the American Black Bear, British Columbia, Canada

highball cocktail made with gin and tonic water

Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.

When it comes to the late Johnny Cash, true stories that sound like myths are plentiful. Cash was a country outlaw who partied like a rock star before it was even a thing. He struggled with drug addiction, he started a forest fire, he fought an ostrich, he…

Flemish cartographer

American actress

Trained canines help locate burial sites dating back to the iron age in Croatia

Road signs in the United Kingdom conform broadly to European design norms, though a number of signs are unique: direction signs omit European route numbers and road signs generally use the Imperial System of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe…

fear of the number 13

Most moles, often called "common moles," are benign. But what about a mole that has one or more hairs growing out of it? It's a popular myth that hairy moles are often cancerous, but that's all it is: a myth. Here's all the information you need to know.

Pictures of baby animals, including puppies and kittens, can have powerful effects on attention and concentration, a study shows.

The answer, a NASA engineer warned, “will sound rather cold and unfeeling.”

The U.S. Office of Naval Research owns a very strange piece of oceanographic equipment. It’s called the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP),...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz/; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, and previously as 37th vice president…