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.

Michael Jordan didn't disappoint the paying customers, but he didn't need an audience to put on a show. His practices were also the stuff of legend.

She might be our longest-reigning monarch, but given that the royal family is shrouded in privacy, there’s a lot that the British public might not know about Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen rarely

MIT students figured out how to make winning the Massachusetts lottery a sure thing, and a recent investigation suggests that the lottery commission knew about it

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BRNO (Reuters) - When a helicopter rushed an unconscious Czech woman who had suffered a severe stroke to hospital in April, her chances of survival were slim - and those of the fetus she had carried in her womb for 15 weeks little better.

Tenga (Japanese: テンガ) is a Japanese brand of male masturbation aids by the company of the same name. Masturbation aids (masturbators), personal lubricants, and other related products are sold under this brand. The company's masturbators have been noted for…