children's book character created by Michael Bond

order of arachnids

Sixty years ago, for the first time in history, an animal was launched into orbit. What is her legacy?

Free-moving globular moss colonies found on and near glaciers

To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women protected themselves with some sharp accessories

An anonymous reader writes from a report via CNBC: A new report reveals the U.S. Defense Department is still using 8-inch floppy disks in a computer system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation's nuclear forces. The Defense Department's…

American technical analyst

Scottish pop band

Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (/ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t-/;French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] (listen); née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria…

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

Chances are if you mention Play-Doh, your listener will know exactly to what you mean. Not only does the name elicit a mental image of the product in a small yellow can with [...]

straw Christmas goat in Gävle, Sweden

Find answers to commonly asked questions and discover interesting facts about spiders in Australia, New Zealand and dangerous spiders around the world.

The Social Gospel was a social movement within Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child…

I'm not sure there's anything more Italian than this.

Unofficial maritime code of conduct

Nothing says "clandestine espionage" like a mail-order catalog

Plus Communism!