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…

American alligator residing in the Moscow Zoo

The Volvo Deal was a plan for industrial cooperation between Norway and Sweden whereby Norway would get 40% of the shares of the Volvo car manufacturing concern, while Volvo would get control over oil resources on the Norwegian continental shelf. The plan…

Proposed African country

"drum roll" please!!!! lol

side note: the one rolling the drum is Jerry Juhl the one telling them what to do in the background is the late Jim Henson "kermit" & that puppeteer doing the temp voice for 'ma' otter is Frank Oz you all might…

Believe it or not, the U.S. and Japanese had it out with Potatoes in combat. Most unbelievable battle, led to the sinking of a submarine.

On the anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court confirmation, Baltimore’s great dismantler of Jim Crow remains a colossus of U.S. history.

British actress (1645-1719)

Cohort succeeding Generation X; comes of age at the start of the Third Millennium

social distribution of sexual orientation

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. It is considered a turning point in post-Reconstruction North Carolina…

In communities all across the country, travelers that went to the moon and back on Apollo 14 are living out their quiet lives.

Kim Il-Sung, communist leader of North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994. He was the country’s premier from 1948 to 1972, chairman of its dominant Korean Workers’ Party from 1949, and president and head of state from 1972. Learn more about Kim’s life…

[Download for PDF/printable version of this article] When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. In fact, I was so wrong, that in one study, the effects of physical…

The falling green characters at the beginning of all of the Matrix films have become perhaps the most recognisable visual from the film, signifying how everything in the franchise's universe is a

Cucumbers are known as one of the lightest and most refreshing fruits around. In fact, that old "cool as a cucumber" cliche isn't a joke at all.