Planning on driving the Autobahn, Germany's famous highway with no speed limits? Check out this handy guide to know the rules before hitting the road.

<p>IT HAS been decades since anyone questioned the idea that romantic kissing is a universal human practice.</p>

President Martin van Buren took office in 1837, upon the departure of Andrew Jackson. Interestingly, although he had strong Dutch origins, van Buren was the first President to be considered an “American” as all Presidents before him had been born before the…

What’s that on the sea ice off Nome’s coast? Shortly after Christmas, each year, the town creates its own “forest” made up of used Christmas trees. It’s a seasonal example of Western Alaska cheerfu…

Michael Schumacher (/ˈʃuːmɑːkər/; German: [ˈmɪçaːʔeːl ˈʃuːmaxɐ] (listen); born 3 January 1969) is a German former racing driver who competed in Formula One for Jordan, Benetton, Ferrari, and Mercedes. Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship…

American film director, screenwriter and producer

69 (sixty-nine) is the natural number following 68 and preceding 70.

The Cosquer Cave in Marseille, France lies deep under the sea where many prehistoric rock art paintings and rock art engravings are preserved. The discovery of the Cosquer Cave is an important rock art find in an area of France where no Palaeolithic cave…

American skateboarder and motivational speaker

Lead-based cosmetics could have killed bacteria on the skin

It's not as weird as you might think

Learning about fascinating creatures is a passion of mine, and one of the most amazing creatures I’ve run across is the octopus.  The denoscription in…

Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers offers the largest inventory of original historic newspapers for sale, all guaranteed authentic and all at great prices.

Dark energy is the name given to the mysterious force that’s causing the rate of expansion of our universe to accelerate over time, rather than to slow down. That’s contrary to what one might expect from a universe that began in a Big Bang. Astronomers in…

January 2007 Wise Guide.

Catalan Christmas Tradition

"Theme from Mission: Impossible" is the theme tune of the TV series Mission: Impossible (1966–1973). The theme was written and composed by Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin and has since gone on to appear in several other works of the Mission: Impossible franchise…

Kansas City Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough went searching for his biological parents. He found them where he never would have expected.

The legend of the Yule Cat is a Christmas story that is celebrated and told to Icelandic children even today. Every year a large Christmas cat is erected in the Laekjartorg square in Reykjavik.   Based on Icelandic folklore, the poem, The Christmas Cat, written…

The lauded co-founder of Studio Ghibli has taken animated film to new heights. Now, a first-of-its-kind retrospective pays tribute to the master, inviting us behind the scenes of the mind that gave us Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro.