The working 18-carat gold toilet called America was taken from Blenheim Palace.

Jeremy Michael Boorda (November 26, 1939 – May 16, 1996) was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda is notable as the first person to have risen from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations, the…

genus of vertebrate from the Pennsylvanian geological period

Art suggests that cacao beans were a valued currency

Anime characters sure yell a lot. They yell their names or demand to know their opponent's names. They yell their attacks. Wind Scar! Anime fans don't

Thirty tortoises partially descended from extinct species found, including one of same species as famed individual

neurological phenomenon associated with urination

Vincent Jen Chin (Chinese: 陳果仁; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was a Chinese American draftsman who was beaten to death in a racially motivated attack by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz.

Russia refused to host the Paralympic games in 1980, but today the country’s disabled athletes are the subjects of a poster campaign in the Moscow metro. Will the new visibility improve life for Russia’s disabled population?

Background When lung cancer fears emerged in the 1950s, cigarette companies initiated a shift in cigarette design from unfiltered to filtered cigarettes. Both the ineffectiveness of cigarette filters and the tobacco industry's misleading marketing of the…

The Battle of Korea Strait was a single ship action fought on the first day of the Korean War, 25–26 June 1950, between the navies of South Korea and North Korea. A North Korean troop transport carrying hundreds of soldiers attempted to land its cargo near…

Whisker Fatigue: What You Need to Know - The thought of tired whiskers may sound silly, but the truth is, whisker fatigue can actually be a problem that makes your cat act completely different

"The Finale" is an episode of the American television sitcom Seinfeld. As the two-part series finale, it is the 179th and 180th episodes of the show and the 23rd and 24th episodes of the ninth season. It aired on NBC on May 14, 1998, to an audience of 76…

Uwe Hohn (born 16 July 1962) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is the only athlete to throw a javelin 100 metres or more, with his world record of 104.80 m (.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser…

It's been revealed that Stephen King never cashed his royalty cheque for the adaptation of his novel, Shawshank Redemption.

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Tessarakonteres (Greek: τεσσαρακοντήρης, "forty-rowed"), or simply "forty" was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt. It was described by a number of ancient sources, including a lost work…