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Illegal Christmas tradition

The 3rd longest-running commercial on tv.

The number of bald eagles in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, according to a new survey. The findings are a bright spot in an otherwise troubling picture for American birds.

The Food Defect Action Levels Handbook by the FDA details the acceptable levels of food contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, "foreign matter", mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces.

"Strangers in the Night" is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the noscript "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed. The song…

Agatha Christie killed off her famous Belgian detective during World War II - but kept the unpublished novel locked away in a vault for a 30 years.

American engineer and inventor

In the 1940s and 50s, Idaho wildlife officials came up with an outlandish plan to airdrop beavers into remote wilderness areas. Long-lost film footage of the operation, known as "Fur for the Future," has just been rediscovered.

2006 viral news story

The hotter it is, the closer we come to the ever elusive goal of besting the horse—which supports the evolutionary "born to run" hypothesis

The U.S. Navy plans to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard its newer submarines.

Happisburgh prints believed to have been left by small group of adults and children are the oldest discovered outside Africa

British folk song mocking Nazi leaders

Check out 10 surprising facts about the fabled Queen of the Nile.

The official website of Joshua Allen Milford - Titanic Historian.

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southern subregion of a…

The word electricity derives from New Latin and ultimately Greek. It first appears in English in Francis Bacon's writings. Depending on context, the word may refer to "electric charge", "electric power" or "electric energy".