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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In early October, four hunters were pursuing elk and mule deer in the foothills of southern Wyoming. Brad Cape, Phillip Yoemans, John Slowensky, and Zach Smith, friends from Missouri, read on the Wyoming Game and Fish website that crossing adjoining corners…

In this livestream excerpt, Adam answers MythBusters-related questions from Tested members Monkeycircus and Jman3302 about which items were the hardest to obtain for the show, and what filming at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was like. Thank you for your…

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"Fairytale of New York" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their London-based band the Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. The song is an Irish folk-style ballad and was written as a duet, with the…

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

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A new analysis of 11 teeth found in a cave in Jersey, an island in the English Channel, suggests that some of them could have belonged to individuals that had mixed Neanderthal and early modern human ancestry.

Even in these days of modern plagues such as AIDS and Ebola virus disease, rabies is regarded with terror. Undoubtedly much of the terror derives from the inexo

Based on the experience of the Apollo 11 astronauts, who spent their rest periods on the lunar module floor, hammocks designed to attach to the interior of the LM ascent stage were provided for the lunar module astronauts from Apollo 12 on.

Ted, a Waihao Downs farmer, left a bottle of beer at the Waihao Forks Hotel when he set off for War on 27 December 1939. Sadly Ted never returned and is buried in the Suda Bay war cemetery in Crete. His bottle is still at the pub, unopened, enshrined in…

London Publication Mail on Sunday reports on Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, who was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. By Alun Rees Mail on Sunday (London)…