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According to UNICEF, Dutch kids are ranked as the happiest kids in the world. Here's what sets them apart from kids in the U.S. and the U.K.

Understanding the change in chemistry of theatre air due to audience reaction can help us develop techniques for early cancer detection.

The Hornsleth Village Project was a controversial conceptual art project by Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth in which he went to the Ugandan village of Buteyongera and paid impoverished villagers to legally change their names to "Hornsleth". In exchange…

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Have you ever wondered why the birds attacked the people in 'Master of Suspense' Alfred Hitchcock's movie 'The Birds'? Hitchcock, a pioneer and master of psychological thriller, left cinema-goers

Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis (hemp, marijuana), Humulus (hops) and Celtis (hackberries). Celtis is by far the largest genus, containing…

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The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new…

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IN 1985 two boys from Darndale, Dublin, Keith Byrne (10) and Noel Murray (13), made headline news around the world after hopping on a Dart and ending up in New York, escaping authorities in three countries in the process. Keith Byrne said that he and Noel…

A new Gallup poll shows that 40 percent of American adults comply to a strict view of creationism, in which God brought humans into existence within the last 10,000 years. More encouragingly, a record number of Americans now say God had absolutely nothing…

Dig into archaeological evidence that reveals the earliest signs of human habitation dating back 19,000 years at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter.

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The production designer who created the code for The Matrix's virtual reality finally reveals its secret.

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If you are attacked by a swarm of wasps do not thrash round, play dead or jump into water.

We owe those who lost their lives on that day an ongoing discussion of how and why these events happened and what we can do to prevent recurrences in the future, including promoting changes in building design for occupant safety, writes Gregory Havel.

In 1993, Tupac received a letter from the parents of a dying boy, named Joshua. They said it was Joshua’s last wish to meet Tupac. Tupac flew to Maryland to meet Joshua and took him to a basketball game. Soon after Joshua’s death Tupac renamed his publishing…