There are several reasons why sports floors are always made of maple wood, including maple's hardness rating, shock resistance, and availability.

India's unique Kharai camels can swim in the sea. But their habitat is slowly disappearing.

“He was always manipulating the experience with a heart. He wasn’t a Machiavellian manipulator; he was a Mother Teresa manipulator,” the actor says of his director.

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THE Battle of Jarama in February 1936 during the Spanish Civil War served as a brutal reality check for the anti-fascist volunteer army known as the

The 84-year-old woman in Alberta had lost the ring in 2004 but kept it a secret from her husband.

Research shows that snapping too many pictures may harm your ability to retain memories. But selfie addicts, don't despair! There are techniques to make photography enhance memory, not undermine it.

John O'Neill, the FBI's expert on Al Qaeda, warned of its threat. But his maverick style doomed his career.

YVO gets a lot of questions about whether Yellowstone, or another caldera system, will end all life on Earth. The answer is—NO, a large explosive eruption at Yellowstone will not lead to the end of the human race. The aftermath of such an explosion certainly…

Years later, Jacob Miller was able to recount the events of his injury and escape despite a bullet to the brain.

In a nearly forgotten episode, the Wisconsin firebrand sided with the Germany military in a war crimes trial, raising questions about his anti-Semitism

Arson and nudity made this branch of the Doukhobors movement notorious in Canada. But they had their reasons to protest.

The year was 1967, and a brutal civil war had erupted in Nigeria

It may sound like the name of a '90s indie band, but Acoustic Kitty was a CIA program to train housecats to be spies. Imagine how that turned out.

Jim Kitchen (born August 15, 1964) is an American entrepreneur and professor. He is the first person to travel to all 193 United Nations recognized countries and to space. Kitchen is a Professor of the Practice of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at UNC Kenan…

At the time, almost no one knew Candlestick Park would be their last stadium show.

Two Pacific Islanders who were lost at sea for a month managed not only to survive, but to unravel a 50-year-old family mystery.

Who do you think of when you hear the words “father of the atomic bomb”?

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