The St. Albans Raid was the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. It was a raid from the Province of Canada by 21 Confederate soldiers. They had recently failed in engagements with the Union Army and evaded subsequent capture in the United States.…

This year, a record 106 vehicles reached Nunavut on a single cargo ship. None of Nunavut’s communities are connected by road, but the number of vehicles in communities continues to rise.

Back in the Cold War craziness of the 1950s, a CIA operative in the Philippines used the local folklore myth of the blood-sucking aswang to try and scare off communist rebels. Did it work?

Gabe Sonnier says his journey proves "it's not where you start, it's how you finish"

Oat milk is a plant milk derived from whole oat (Avena spp.) grains by extracting the plant material with water. Oat milk has a creamy texture and mild oatmeal-like flavor, and is manufactured in various flavors, such as sweetened, unsweetened, vanilla, and…

Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", which first appeared on the internet in Arabic and which has since been circulated by Islamists in Britain.

As fans mourn the death of Tina Turner at the age of 83, attention is turning to the special connection the rock legend had to Aussie culture.

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The British Post Office scandal is a miscarriage of justice involving the wrongful civil and criminal prosecutions of an unknown or unpublished number of sub-postmasters (SPMs) for theft, false accounting and/or fraud. The cases constitute the most widespread…

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To enhance the pleasures of sacred liquors, they used to ingest them in a way that many would consider unconventional … Of the story possibly what is most enjoyed are the gossip and rumors about extravagant customs. There is something truly seductive in that…

The ancient Olympic Games were a sporting event held every four years at the sacred site of Olympia, in the western Peloponnese, in honour of Zeus, the supreme god of the Greek religion. The games...

Discover the Golden Age of China through their very powerful swords that inspired others in East Asia. Find out what swords there were and what they were used for.

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Hyponatremia occurs in a substantial fraction of nonelite marathon runners and can be severe. Considerable weight gain while running, a long racing time, and body-mass-index extremes were associated with hyponatremia, whereas female sex, composition of fluids…

Margaret Theresa of Spain (Spanish: Margarita Teresa, German: Margarete Theresia; 12 July 1651 – 12 March 1673) was, by marriage to Leopold I, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. She was the daughter…

The soul legend has lived in Switzerland for nearly 20 years.

Octopus lifespan is short. Of the roughly 300 species of octopus, they live on average six months and five years, depending on the species.