It is not unusual for people to become more prejudiced as they get older, argues professor of psychology William von Hippel.

Kids in the US leave out milk and cookies for Santa, but that's not the norm around the world. From beer to rice pudding, see what others feed him.

British transatlantic passenger liner, launched and foundered in 1912

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loosely based on the 1843…

human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals)

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II ordered guest rooms stripped of valuables before a state visit by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1978, a British newspaper said Sunday.

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Your eye color may tell you something about your risk for alcohol addiction, according to a surprising new study from researchers at the University of Vermont.

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HBO Max is an American subnoscription-based video on demand service owned by AT&T's WarnerMedia, through its WarnerMedia Direct subsidiary. The service was launched in the United States on May 27, 2020, in Latin America and the Caribbean on June 29, 2021, and…

NASA's Webb Space Telescope Launch: From arrival at the ESA launch Facility in Kourou French Guiana, through launch and deployment, this is your starting point for exploring Webb's launch and commissioning. The James Webb Space Telescope's revolutionary…

building in Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy…

The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called Webb or JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Webb will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in…

The Titanic was a ship wreck that took place in 1912.

The cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii is known to cause infected rodents to lose their fear of feline predators, which makes them easier to catch. Predators then spread the parasites through their feces. But this so-called fatal feline attraction theory is flawed…

Human Bones, Joints and Muscles Facts: Your bones are composed of 31% water. Your bones, pound for pound, are 4 times stronger than concrete. A muscle called the diaphragm controls the human breathing process. Bone is stronger than some steel. Bones make…

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On Christmas morning all over Ireland, there will be countless people thanking their lucky stars, because they know that once Christmas arrives they no longer have to suffer the wrath of a vicious Twelve Pubs of Christmas hangover.