Jeanette Taylor said she asked for public housing in 1993 as a 19-year-old. Almost three decades passed before she got her acceptance letter.

News that a Florida legislator wants to bring back the banned activity of "dwarf tossing" has people shaking their heads — and wondering why in the world you would want to do something like that. Of course, they're also curious as to whether he'll succeed.

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The idea of using American Indians who were fluent in both their traditional tribal language and in English to send secret messages in battle was first put to the test in World War I with the Choctaw Telephone Squad and other Native communications experts…

Researchers have identified traces of what they believe is the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans – a microscopic, bag-like sea creature, which lived about 540 million years ago. Named

Attempted WWII German Sabotage Operation against the Continental United States

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Egg coffee, a tradition in midwestern Scandinavian-American churches, is a light, clear brew that is free from the bitterness found in most coffee.

The affected vehicles include the 2020-2022 Model S, Model X, Model Y and certain 2017-22 Model 3s

In 1990, the federal government invited a group of  geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They would be there on assignment. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)…

With regard to this issue, Rava, son of Rabba, sent the following question to Rav Yosef: Let our teacher teach us, what should we do to verify whether or not...

An aqueduct has been and continues to be an imporant way to get water from one place to another. Be it 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, Italy or today in California, aqueducts were and are essential to get water from a place where it exists in ample supply…

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The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The Sacred City of Caral-Supe is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the ...

Globally 1 in 7 of us live with a disability. And of those, 80% are invisible. That is over 1 billion people who are living with a non-visible disability.
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Cruise ship overboard detection aim to cut down the response time when someone goes overboard. So, why doesn't every ship have them?

A group in California is starting to engineer plants that could one day replace streetlights

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A chess-playing robot broke a boy’s finger during a match in Russia last week, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told state news agency TASS media.