"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.

Suttee by James Atkinson, 1831, in the India Office Collection of the British Library (c) British Library Board 2009 In this age of ascending feminism and focus on equality and human rights, it is difficult to assimilate the Hindu practice of sati, the burning…

The 28-year-old Timur Gareyev has set a world record for blindfold chess of 48 games at once and the US grandmaster says he is ready to take on 55 games simultaneously

<p>There has been much debate about how close the United States was to victory in the Pacific before the atomic bombs were dropped 75 years ago this week. But in 1945, the military ordered so many Purple Heart medals in anticipation of an invasion of Japan…

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AAA is the highest possible rating assigned to the bonds of an issuer by credit rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings.

We have all been there.  While we stretch our ears we notice a little bit of a stink.  Some are lucky to never have this problem, but this article is for the people with ear stank.The stink in your ear comes from dead skin and oil produced by your skin called…

A judge in New Mexico approached an engineer after reading a strip of "The Amazing Spider-Man" in 1977.

After Charles Hatfield began his work to wring water from the skies, San Diego experienced its wettest period in recorded history.

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The man fined for sending non-disabled athletes to the Sydney Paralympics breaks his silence.

Some stars were wealthy before their careers even got going.