Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, Ma was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from The Juilliard School and Harvard University, and…

A man who allegedly has persuaded more than seven women over the last three years to pay him for sex to "cure" non-existent diseases has been charged with obtaining sex by fraud in connection with the case of a 23-year-old Orange County woman, officials said…

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The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from…

Flamingos or flamingoes/fləˈmɪŋɡoʊz/ are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, the only bird family in the order Phoenicopteriformes. Four flamingo species are distributed throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean, and two species are…

The pizzly bear is an animal that was first found in the wild in 2006, but what exactly is a pizzly bear?   Pizzly Bear -…

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The tree had grown out of the stomach of a man, identified as Ahmet Hergune, who was killed during a conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in 1974.

Common swift now the longest continually-flying bird, spending at least 99.5 per cent of their 14,000-mile migration in the air.

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While some get a buzz from sitting on roller coasters, others get the urge to puke. But almost no one knows about why they were made. Well, let's find out.

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Auto-Tune may have initially been invented by a mathematician, but it is now used in pretty much every pop song, sometimes subtly, other times so blatantly that it becomes an instrument itself.

Derived from ethyl alcohol, ether was a sweet-smelling, colorless liquid that came into medical prominence in the nineteenth century. When vaporized and inhaled, it produced varying degrees of unconsciousness. First employed as a general anesthetic by American…

The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It is not closely related to the birds now known as penguins, which were discovered later…