This famous '80s case study is a terrifying glimpse into acute mercury poisoning.

Keepers must trick her into thinking she had only one baby

Adolph Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian statistician, and famously envisioned l'homme moyen—an image of the average man developed through the measurement of human features with the deviation plotted around the mean. He started with human physical features…

Alain de Botton finds a corner of South America that is forever France, and where tropical jungle tangles with space exploration

Why would a psychological scientist study swearing? Expertise in such an area has different practical significance inside and outside the community of psychological science. Outside the scientific community, expertise on taboo language is justification for

St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States of America. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy…

Long before Marvel's shared universe, there was the Tarantinoverse.

Hitler made several miscalculations ahead of the Allied invasion of Normandy—but there were still deadly German defenses in place.

If the receptacle remains intact, it gets the bears’ literal seal of approval: a silver-dollar-sized sticker depicting the silhouette of a grizzly's head.

species of reptile

Chinese workers are in Germany to dismantle a steel works that will be packed up and rebuilt in China to meet the country's huge steel demand.

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1958 United States law

Genghis Khan (born Temüjin,c. 1158 – August 18, 1227), was the founder and first Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast…

When heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after converting to Islam, he stated that his birth name was “a slave name,” adding, “I didn’t choose it and I don’t

You still see planes and jets in the sky, but a blimp is a rare sighting these days.

What is this law and how did it get its nickname?

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