Operation Monopoly was a covert plan by the FBI to build a tunnel underneath the new Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., to gather secret intelligence. In 1977, the embassy of the Soviet Union was relocated to a new building complex. There were fears that…

French general and politician

EVERY NOW AND THEN you see a promotion and you say to yourself; damn I wish I'd thought of that! Then there are the even less frequent occasions where

Activity in which participants compete to consume large quantities of food

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He's the most famous businessman in the world. Reams have been written about how he dominated the revolution in personal computing and is now poised to turn Microsoft into a media and Internet...

altered mental state

Google confirms that ex-employee Sanmay Ved bought the Google.com domain for about a minute last fall for $12, and that it paid $12,000 to charity to get it back.

Shooting has been contested since the inaugural modern Olympic Games in 1896.
Olympic expansion
Shooting has come a long way since its debut at the inaugural Games in 1896.

'Bison are like one organism and she stands out'

American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates

Length of time the Presidents of the United States were married.

American disc jockey

American best known for surviving a failed execution by electrocution in the United States

Vespasian (/vɛˈspeɪʒ(i)ən, -ziən/; Latin: Vespasianus [wɛs.pasiˈa:nʊs]; 17 November AD 9 – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79. The fourth and last in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years.

very narrow opening

A man who communicated through drawing before learning the ability to speak and whose first word was pencil, the Spanish "piz," certainly seemed fated to...

German musician