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...

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James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one of the nastiest in history.

One hundred years ago this week tanks made their first appearance on the battlefield and the face of modern warfare was changed for ever. They were…

Your credit card balance affects your credit score, in a good or bad way. Learn the ideal credit card balance for a good score and how to get there.

The Rock Hall of Famers also announced new drummer, jazz-fusion legend Narada Michael Walden

The Moriori Genocide was the systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, enslavement, and cultural annihilation of the Moriori people, the indigenous ethnic group of the Chatham Islands, by members of the mainland New Zealand iwi of Ngāti Mutunga and to a lesser…

A new true crime podcast revisits the mysterious 1964 murder of the Washington, D.C. socialite.

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is a species of mammoth that lived during the Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch. It was one of the last in a line of mammoth species, beginning with Mammuthus subplanifrons in the early Pliocene.…

Why do we eat cornflakes? Why are pancakes a breakfast food? What did we drink at breakfast before we had coffee? Discover the truth about your morning meal.

Susan Walters, the ex-wife of Michael Kuhnhausen Sr., is busy preparing to do everything she can to protect herself once he is released from prison later this year.

1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilians fatalities)…

It's remarkable what evolution can do in millions of years.

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variety of religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish Christian milieux

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Britain's electricity network operator National Grid is surveying football fans and analysing data to make sure it can respond to an expected surge in demand when UK viewers of the World Cup brew their traditional cup of half-time tea.