"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)…

A New Orleans grand jury did not indict Dr. Anna Pou, a physician accused of euthanizing four critically ill hospital patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Last summer, Pou and two nurses were charged with giving the patients lethal injections.

Many people think the area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant is a place of post-apocalyptic desolation. But more than 30 years after one of the facility’s reactors exploded, sparking the worst nuclear accident in human history, science tells us something…

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We’ve all seen those kitschy, old-timey business signs like “Ye Old Curiosity Shop,” or “Ye Old Hat Shop,” or “Ye Old Beer Stand.” Shockingly, this whole time we have been mispronouncing these name…

Maus's creator has dealt with work being banned in schools before.

Santa receives more letters than he can answer. You can help! Adopt a letter today and fulfill someone’s holiday wish with USPS Operation Santa®.

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Actor Bill Paxton: "Some people were laughing, some people were crying, some people were throwing up.”

SINGAPORE -  It was deemed a landmark victory when Madam Choo Hong Eng won her battle against Marina Bay Sands casino in 2011, claiming the full amount of her $410,000 winnings from hitting the jackpot at a slot machine. The casino had initially denied her…

When this North Island brown kiwi injured his leg in a trap, his creative rescuers built a tiny treadmill to help him regain his strength!

Learn about how Benjamin Franklin was inspired by the sound of wet fingers on glass, leading to his own musical invention, the glass armonica.