Quentin Tarantino first offered part played by Jamie Foxx to Smith, but actor felt the role played by Christoph Waltz was the real lead

The Supreme Court upheld a century-old law that was challenged by equal rights activitsts

Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas public schools for one year rather than allow integration.

Area 51 is a light gun arcade game released by Atari Games in 1995. It takes its name from the military facility. The plot of the game involves the player taking part in a Strategic Tactical Advanced Alien Response (STAAR) military incursion to prevent aliens…

"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 95th episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 17, 1994. Lisa challenges…

Yao Ming (Chinese: 姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association…

The historical Burro Schmidt Tunnel is located in the El Paso Mountains of the northern Mojave Desert, in eastern Kern County, southern California.

Naturkatastrophen die besonders häufig in den USA vorkommen

bull orca who lived in captivity at SeaWorld Orlando, Florida

An ecological island is not necessarily an island surrounded by water, but is an area of land, isolated by natural or artificial means from the surrounding land, where a natural micro-habitat exists amidst a larger differing ecosystem.

Who stole the pink bunny? If you haven't noticed, the mascots for both Energizer and Duracell are pink bunnies powered by batteries. But which came first? The Energizer or Duracell Bunny?

The concert that began as an internet rumor finally came to reality yesterday, as Metallica became the first major music act to perform in Antarctica. The long-running metal act performed an hour-long set inside a dome close to the heliport of Carlini Scientific…

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, musician, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second…

The male disadvantage in infant mortality underwent a surprising rise and fall in the 20th century. Our analysis of 15 developed countries shows that, as infant mortality declined over two centuries, the excess male mortality increased from 10% in 1751 to…

Prosecutors in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial have produced a document they claim reveals a $9 million advance to the producers of the Oscar-nominated ‘The Wolf of Wall Street&#82…

Mardi Gras is full of secrets, and the Mardi Gras Indians are as much a part of that secret society as any other carnival organization.

French actress, film director and screenwriter

Ivești Village, Vaslui County, Romania--Rifca Stanescu, a Romanian housewife, now 25, was just 12 years old when she had her first child Maria; Maria gave birth to son Ion at the age of 11, when her mother Rifca was only 23, thus setting the world record…

There are a lot of tall tales when it comes to Australia's fantastical fauna. We try to sort fact from fiction.