The island off Africa's east coast had few human inhabitants prior to the Asian colonization.

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English singer and songwriter

Demographic trend in modern Japanese society

controversial claim that memory may be stored in the unconscious mind

Mulholland gave LA water and a motto to live by.

plant in the genus Brassica grown for use as a vegetable

“It's hard to explain, but there is something meaningful about getting together with people who willingly choose to do nothing.”

On July 12, 1968, 400 people, including sailors and officers in dress uniform, attended the funeral with full military honors at the Naval Home for its former four-legged resident.

The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns

What a find! At a yard sale a good friend scored a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Father Christmas Letters and she was good enough to give it to me. Published by his daughter-in-law in 1976 on …

table condiment usually made of tomatoes

How a fast-food marketing campaign turned into a widespread Yuletide tradition for millions

burst of electromagnetic radiation created by a nuclear explosion

USSR discloses that in '66 it detonated an underground nuclear charge 'of unprecedented force' to extinguish a fire raging out of control in a natural gas field in desert area of Uzbekistan; map; disclosure made by newspaper Pravda Vostoka of Tashkent

A welcome comfort for WWII soldiers…if they didn’t explode.

This article contains the Highest paid state employees in the USA and the best states which include Dabo Swinney, John Calipari, Nick Saban..

Crafted from leather and wood, the ancient Egyptian prosthesis was was adjusted to precisely fit its wearer's foot

British musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd (1946-2006)