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One in four cowboys was black. So why aren’t they more present in popular culture?

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In an unprecedented case, medical authorities in Germany say that three people appear to have been infected with rabies after receiving organs from a single female donor.

For thousands of years, Australia’s Aboriginal people have sung stories about sacred “firehawks” — raptors that, according to lore, use fire to hunt and introduced fire to humans. Now, merging...

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A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

New York's bars have an impressive history of employing creative strategies for getting around limitations—including, in the late 1800s, serving sandwiches of dubious edibility in order to comply with restrictions on liquor service.

United States law establishing protected areas in Alaska

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The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement (Chinese: 百花齐放), was a period from 1956 to 1957 in the People's Republic of China during which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) encouraged citizens to openly express their opinions of…

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Years after her death, the record keeping of a forensic scientist is freeing innocent men in Virginia.

By refusing to make parts, manuals or repair software available, writes Nathan Proctor, companies prevent you from having what you need to fix your stuff.

Are any of the urban myths true surrounding the seagull and its Hitchcockian behaviours?

Farting is an activity that most, if not all living things engage in. Farting, or fizzing, is best described as the act of removing air via the anus. The number of times a person farts depends on many reasons including the number of gases in their system…

There’s more to galaxies than meets the eye, and now astronomers have mapped out a huge invisible region of the galaxy next door. Observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have detailed the size and structure of the gas halo of Andromeda – and found that…

It took years to determine the source of this mysterious rumble from the deep, but scientists determined it originated from an Antarctic icequake.

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