Octopuses are problem-solvers, mischief-makers and notorious escape artists. They also appear to have a rich inner life – so what is it like to be an octopus?

"Eat It" is a 1984 song by American comedy music artist "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of Michael Jackson's 1983 single "Beat It", with the contents changed to be about an exasperated parent attempting to get their picky child to eat anything at all…

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The Xuantong Emperor, born Aisin-Gioro Puyi, commonly known as Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967), courtesy name Yaozhi (曜之), was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty monarch. He became emperor at the age of…

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

Steven Stack, Jim Gundlach, The Effect of Country Music on Suicide, Social Forces, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Sep., 1992), pp. 211-218

Learn facts about the American pika’s habitat, diet, life history, and more.

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Fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, the remains of 1,113 victims — 40 percent of the 2,753 who died — still have not been identified.

Understanding feeding patterns is key to understanding the origin and implications of many aspects of animal social lives.

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Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, said Thursday that it helped finance construction of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz--a surprise revelation that came in the middle of its bid to buy America's eighth biggest bank.

World record-breaking scuba dives: who has gone the deepest, spent the most time underwater, done it with more people and a stack of other scuba diving world records The deepest dive The world’s deepest dive on open circuit scuba stands at 332.35m (1,090ft).…

Event during World War 2

Diving insiders were dismayed and saddened as an anonymous set of emails expose serious questions about the 2014 world record dive by Ahmed Gabr

overview of divorce laws around the world

Bicycles promised freedom to women long accustomed to relying on men for transportation. Suddenly, the relatively inexpensive and readily accessible technological innovation gave women more control over where they went and when.

The Barnes Opening (sometimes called Gedult's Opening) is a chess opening where White opens with:

Using the Charity Engine computer cluster, Andrew Sutherland of MIT and Andrew Booker of Bristol University solved the famous Diophantine Equation mathematics puzzle for the number 42. That is, are there three cubes whose sum is 42?