Here's Why Disney World Doesn't Have Mosquitoes

Besides allowing us to perceive our surroundings, eye movements are also a window into our mind and a rich source of information on who we are, how we feel, and what we do. Here we show that eye movements during an everyday task predict aspects of our personality.…

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"How can it be six decades when I'm only four decades?" Cher jokes with Billboard.

Christian apologetic treatises written in Arabic and Spanish during the ninth century contain attacks against both Muslims and Jews. The attacks fall under the ...

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For many years Sergeant Kevin Briggs had a dark, unusual, at times strangely rewarding job: He patrolled the southern end of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a popular site for suicide attempts. In a sobering, deeply personal talk Briggs shares stories…

My youngest daughter has been on a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory fix this last week. She's always asking to to watch it, which is fine by me because I love this movie! This is one of those classic films I don't think I'll ever get tired of watching.…

Between 1492 and 1504, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus led four Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expeditions to the Americas. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World. This breakthrough inaugurated the period known as the Age…

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Louis Vuitton offers some of the finest and most expensive bags on the market, but do they destroy ones that they don’t sell?

When U.S. Army Corps bombardier Max Spencer Adler was shot down over Europe and imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, it’s not likely he dreamed of one day becoming the czar of penis-shaped lollipops and lava lamps.

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Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (French: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. From 1216 to 1217, he invaded and claimed the Kingdom of England. Louis participated in the Albigensian Crusade in southern France…

Get ready to meet the next movie star: After a career playing second fiddles (and an awesome toy), Chris Pratt bolts onto the A list with two major films

The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states,…

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And nine other things we learned from the 'Breaking Bad' star's new memoir.

A park bench in Bristol has been given an official postal address so doctors can register the homeless as patients.

Bernice Frankel's Official Military Personnel File reveals a Golden Girl's WWII service history.