Brown's B-17 was perhaps the most heavily damaged bomber to return from combat. It survived because of an enemy's act of chivalry.

Contrary to popular views about precolonial Africa, local manufacturers were at this time creating items of comparable, if not superior, quality to those from preindustrial Europe.

Filmed on location in Arkansas for 39 days starting on September 26, 2011, Mud was the largest film production to set up camp in “The Natural State.” When it opened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, the film received an 18-minute standing ovation.…

Since around the 2000 United States presidential election, red states and blue states have referred to states of the United States whose voters predominantly choose either the Republican Party (red) or Democratic Party (blue) presidential and senatorial candidates.…

YouTube Forty years ago today, ABC Sports broadcast The Superstars, an all-around sports competition that pit elite athletes from different sports against one

Service academy athletic business affairs now more secret than weapons budgets

Vermont's natural medicine? In the last five years, some EMTs have begun keeping maple syrup in their ambulances to treat low blood sugar.

A teenage Mike Tyson was in person for one of Muhammad Ali's final fights and vowed revenge after watching his hero lose.

At the age of 19, Frasier the lion escaped certain death

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You may not be able to buy some of these items anymore, but others, like fried shrimp and bacon rolls, are still on certain international menus.

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Anni-Frid was persecuted as a child of the 'master race', reports Kate Connolly. Now people like her want justice.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers.
Growing up, Sir Tim was interested in trains and had a model railway in his bedroom. He recalls:…

Anthony Gignac gets 18 years in jail for using a fake persona to cheat people out of money.

 
Roman Polanski’s first film after the horrific murder of his wife Sharon Tate and their friends at 10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, in 1969 was a reworking of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Polanski said the murders had traumatised…

Amadeo I (Italian: Amedeo, sometimes latinized as Amadeus; 30 May 1845 – 18 January 1890) was an Italian prince who reigned as King of Spain from 1870 to 1873. The first and only King of Spain from the House of Savoy, he was the second son of King Vittorio…

She followed the safety protocol, but the mother of two was dead within a year.