1979 action film directed by Walter Hill

Human blood plasma is the United States' 10th most valuable export and rivals classic American exports, such as cars and computer and chips.

Kosher salt is standard in the BA test kitchen; but which salt you choose depends entirely on how you want to use it.

Rent is cheap and it’s always 68 degrees—which is perfect for more businesses than you may realize.

The IKEA effect is a psychological bias which causes us to overvalue things we build, assemble or somehow involve in

We report telemetry recording of an extreme non-fatal tachyarrhythmia noted in a hospitalized quadriplegic male with history of atrial fibrillation where the average ventricular conduction rate was found to be about 600 beats per minute and was associated…

The mascot for Mad magazine

collection of multimedia related APIs on Microsoft platforms

Admiral Zheng He (aka Cheng Ho, c. 1371-1433 CE) was a Chinese Muslim eunuch explorer who was sent by the Ming dynasty emperor Yongle (r. 1403-1424 CE) on seven diplomatic missions to increase trade...

White supremacists fetishise ancient Rome – but antiquity was more diverse and polychromatic than racists will admit

sled dog relay bringing antitoxin to Nome, Alaska

vowel shifts

Titanic Survivor

2017 assassination

Once a universal skill taught in the school classroom, handwriting fell out of favor with the introduction of technologies designed to make communication more efficient.

A mother whose daughter was kidnapped and later killed by ten Mexican Cartel members hunted them down and brought them to justice.

We’ve all heard of so-called “medieval torture devices.” You can find tons of clickbait-y articles online and videos on YouTube and so forth talking about the most gruesome of these alleged devices. For instance, here is a YouTube video from BuzzFeed noscriptd…

Did the Texas legislature once pass a resolution honoring the Boston strangler?

The Eagle Repository is a one of a kind facility, operated and managed by the Office of Law Enforcement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  The main purpose is to receive, evaluate, store and distribute dead golden and bald eagles, parts and feathers to Native…

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