The Science Gallery in Dublin has built a full-scale model of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning Blonsky birthing device, and placed it next to the window where passersby can admire and wonder at it: This …

Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)

China was a vital, but often forgotten, member of the Allies battling Japan—two years before the official start of World War II.

turf war in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans

Martin Luther King Jr. was also outspoken against nuclear weapons.

Muscles are groups of cells in the body that have the ability to contract and relax. There are different types of muscle, and some are controlled automatically by the autonomic nervous system. Other muscles, like the skeletal muscle that moves the arm,…

Auditory and visual imagery were studied in a sample of 128 participants, including 34 self-reported aphantasics. Auditory imagery (Bucknell Auditory Imagery Scale-Vividness, BAIS-V) and visual imagery (Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire-Modified,…

German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939

On 25 August 2010, a Let L-410 Turbolet passenger aircraft of Filair crashed on approach to Bandundu Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all but one of the 21 people on board.

Hattie McDaniel changed history with her Oscar for Gone with the Wind. It elevated her to a symbol of racial progress — but made her a pariah to much of black America.

August Landmesser’s act of defiance stands out amid the throng of Nazi salutes at this 1936 rally.

Inside Edition's Deborah Norville announced that she is undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous thyroid nodule in her neck

Annie Robinson, a 40-year-old stewardess aboard the Titanic, would later take her own life leaping overboard from another liner in mid-Atlantic...

We have all the color options and color codes for the 1967 Mustang, including exterior colors, interior colors and other color-related options.

The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani /ˈroʊməni/, /ˈrɒ-/), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group and traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide with significant…

The Norwegian government purchases 1,000 copies of every book published in the country. Then, they distribute the books to libraries across the country.

single-seat, twin-engine stealth ground-attack aircraft