A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam chowder with tomato. Guilty offenders would have to dig up a barrel of clams at high tide. As any clammer will tell you, that is…

The American race riot that kicked off in a Lancashire town.

Tragedy took place under direction of cult leader Jim Jones, in which 909 members of the Peoples Temple died by murder-suicide in 1978.

"Old Town Road" is the debut single of American rapper Lil Nas X, first released independently in December 2018. After gaining popularity, the single was re-released by Columbia Records in March 2019. Lil Nas X also recorded a remix with American country…

In 1975, Jack Hetherington and F.D.C. Willard published a paper together in Physical Review Letters. The paper is an influential view into atomic behavior and has been cited multiple times, but only one of its authors is human...

overview of literacy in the United States

Politicians Fear Product's Availability Will Lead to Increased Promiscuity Among Women

Rathborne Candles is the oldest candle manufacturer in the world, founded in 1488 in Dublin.

Български електромобили в Сандъците - Sandacite! (Статията е публикувана от автора за първи път във в.к Fibank News - издание на Първа инвестиционна банка (Fibank) - брой 95, 13 май 2016 ==> кликни тук.) В нашата страна преди повече от 50 години вече е имало…

One of the co-founders of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) was Minor Cooper Keith. He built a railroad in Costa Rica and planted many banana trees along the way to feed the workers. When the government could no longer fund the project, Keith had to…

Bill Gates talks in detail about his life from his schooldays onwards, and chooses the eight pieces of music he would most like to have with him on a desert island.

In a dispute dating back 15 years, Pinball Hall of Fame operator Tim Arnold still says Sir Elton still owes him $500.

A cartoon similar to Schoolhouse Rock. It aired on Saturday Mornings in the late 70's to teach kids the metric system! (Special thanks to Mark A. Yurkiw!)

"Mara-Mara-Marathon"

The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, code-named Operation PBSuccess, was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution…

Homa Khaleeli: Symphysiotomy has left many Irish mothers with serious long-term health problems. So did religious dogma trump the women’s best interests?

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As demonstrated by the ailments that plague ISS astronauts returning to Earth, we're simply not built for space. What would happen to a human fired out of an airlock?