The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear…

The Vancouver International Film Festival are just days away and with it comes the annual VIFF Industry Conference. Taking place October 1st – 4th, the conference is a gathering of some of the best and brightest creative minds in the film, gaming and animation…

When you're driving along the CTE or KPE, take note of the orange and white tunnel lighting used in different segments of the tunnel.

Introduction to series “The Girl in the Video 2” (including list of interviewees). The video : “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do Tha...

Alexandra Valeria Botez (born September 24, 1995) is an American-Canadian chess player and commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber. As a player, she became a five-time Canadian National Girls Champion and won the U.S. Girls Nationals at age 15. She achieved…

The eight traditional reindeer originated in an 1823 poem called 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas'

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

Meet Mario Rigby and hear about his epic journey across Africa on foot, from Cape Town to Cairo. Read the story on Marriott Bonvoy Traveler.

Though she laid bare the false claim of women's intellectual inferiority, Alice Lee failed to apply the same logic to race

For much of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a chess-playing automaton known as the “Turk” drew huge crowds at exhibitions across Europe and the United States.

Panoramic tour on the app shows stacks of shining gold bars, each weighing around 13kg and valued at about £350,000

It’s a story about alcohol. But it’s also one about roads.

The saxophonist was one of the coffee chain's early investors.

large crocodilian reptile

book by Roald Dahl

Horizon Zero Dawn, the new game from the makers of Killzone, was the sort of noscript that had Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony Computer Entertainment's head of world wide studios, nervous. It was, he...

Scottish surgeon

On June 19th, 1905 the nation's first stand-alone movie theater had set up the first commercial cinema enterprise offering patrons a look at "moving pictures" in a small storefront on Smithfield Street.

Christmas with the presence of snow, either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day

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American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan