The Pakistan Army (Urdu: پاکستان فوج‎, romanized: Pākistān Fãuj;
pronounced [ˈpaːkɪstaːn faːɔːdʒ]) is the land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following…

Different music encourages different frames of mind

Jeremiah Denton, the downed Navy pilot who was paraded before television cameras by the Viet Cong and confirmed U.S. suspicions of prisoner maltreatment during the Vietnam War by blinking out the word "torture" in Morse code, has died.

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I've been doing a lot of reading lately, as you can imagine, and decided I would start reading one of my favorite detective series from the very start: the incomparable Ellery Queen. 
Ellery Queen was the author as well as the main character of more than…

Have you seen one of these at the store?

A 1961 documentary about the non-profit group that got kids off the street.

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The Classics are must-see, must-read, must-play works revered by The Verge staff. They offer glimpses of the future, glimpses of humanity, and a glimpse of our very souls. You should check them...

The group behind raising Confederate Statues did not do so to honor veterans of the Civil War, they did so to promote the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

Say what you want, but there's something beautiful about an overly lopsided game. Let me be clear: I'm not talking about a 21-0 shutout in a national championship game. That's just boring, Alabama and LSU. I'm talking about Yale beating Dartmouth, 113-0,…

Grapefruit juice can affect how well some medicines work, and it may cause dangerous side effects.

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David Berry Jr, jailed for illegally killing deer, must watch the Disney film Bambi once a month.

Over the past year, developers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have been hard at work upgrading our entire database of tools, resources, and nearly one billion bird observations. As we near the end of this process it is necessary to take our se...

Music radio stations in France are locked in a battle with the government over laws that force them to play a certain number of French-language songs on the airwaves, with some now planning a day-lon…

Why the elephant and the donkey?

Doctors in a Scottish hospital discovered the source of a female patient's discomfort: a sex toy that had been stuck in her vagina for a decade.

The era of color-coded political parties is more recent than you might think

On the Il de Ré, donkeys wear pajamas in a century old tradition. These pointou donkeys are famous for their size, fluffy hair, and pants.