Discover whether Marge Simpson's signature big blue beehive actually disguises a pair of rabbit ears.

Norway unexpectedly took almost $400 million from its sovereign wealth fund in August, marking the first withdrawal in over a year as western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer takes advantage of its enormous piggy bank amid a decline in oil prices.

Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well. After the stock market crash, many businesses started to close or to lay off workers. Many families did not have money to buy things…

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The Offspring's Dexter Holland has completed the molecular biology Ph.D program he put on hold to focus on rock & roll.

Daniel LaPlante (Danny LaPlante) holds a rare prestige in the annals of true crime. It is not the murders for which LaPlante was responsible for which provided him his infamy, but the nightmarish events which preceded them, despite no lives being lost in…

Smash is the third studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on April 8, 1994, by Epitaph Records. After touring in support of their previous album Ignition (1992), the band recorded their next album over two months at Track Record in…

In the decades after the Civil War, Pennsylvania veterans sought to keep Confederate monuments and memorials off the Gettysburg battlefield.

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The main TurboTax software is rarely free to use, regardless of what the website says.

Irish seanchaí; last person who spoke only Irish

Baby elephants are raining from the sky in Amboseli

Victorino Matus on The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, British satirical film, released in 1964, that was director and cowriter Stanley Kubrick’s landmark Cold War farce. It overcame a troubled production to become a film classic. Set at the…

Reuters/Phurba Tenjing SherpaClimbers make their way to the summit of Everest in Nepal on May 22, 2019.11 people have died summiting Mount Everest this spring.The

The absence of digital niceties in Barbara Kruger’s statement sends a chill of awe down my spine.

As special advisor for Guinea worm eradication at the Atlanta-based Carter Center, Hopkins insists the end is close and says he won’t retire until Guinea worm is completely wiped from the planet. “There’s no way I can stop,” he says. “I've got the tiger by…

Our friends over at /Film noticed something interesting about IMDb's rating for the film This Is Spinal Tap: It goes to 11. If you look at the entry on IMBb you'll see that the maximum rating listed for the film is 11, though you really can only rank it…