American businessman and film director

In December 1777, the Moroccan Sultan Muhammad III included the United States in a list of countries to which Morocco’s ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose head of state publicly recognized the newly independent United States.[failed…

The Golden Arches are going to need a whole lot of special sauce to win back twenty-somethings.

A bank manager who took €1m from his richest clients to give to the needy narrowly escapes prison.

Be honest with me here: You have one or even multiple friends who always post their gym activity to Facebook. Or maybe that person is you.

On January 28, 1986, as the Space Shuttle Challenger broke up over the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds into its flight, Allan McDonald looked on in shock -- despite the fact that the night before, he had refused to sign the launch recommendation over safety concerns.

The Carter administration began the task of automating the White House with computers. Initial uses included assembling...

He talks the talk and walks the walk

"Save the Last Dance for Me" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by the Drifters, with Ben E. King on lead vocals.

period of competitive fossil hunting during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh

Scientists are trained to believe that the animal mind is unknowable. They should look closer.

The Democratic National Convention was a tense scene in July of 1972. The gathering in Miami came just one month after burglars had broken into the Democratic

The sun gun or heliobeam is a theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate sunlight onto a small area at the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.

Betamaxed Definition - Betamaxed is a slang term for when a superior product loses out to an inferior product. This term refers to the adoption of VHS...

The rarest hair color in the world is red. Around 1 to 2% of the world’s population has red hair. 1 to 2% of the world's population of 7.7 billion people.

A customer gave Tonda Dickerson a lottery ticket in 1999 that netted her $10 million. Her life changed forever.

An international team of neuroscientists scanned the brains of lifelong bullies and found that bullies' brains appear to be smaller than other brains.

Before the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in 2003, only 12 other animal or human coronaviruses were known. The discovery of this virus was soon followed by the discovery of the civet and bat SARS-CoV and the ...

John Candy owned a sports team and was a Doctor Who fan. Here are twenty facts about the late actor.