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Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to…

"Walk Like an Egyptian" is a song by American band the Bangles. It was released in September 1986 as the third single from their second studio album, Different Light (1986). It was the band's first number-one single, being certified gold by the Recording…

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This is a list of characters in the Indiana Jones series.

The fascinating history behind Technicolor and how their processes gave filmmaking life and color.

Messing was hospitalized in August and placed on a ventilator

Before water fountains, or drinking fountains, there was a widespread though unsanitary practice of using the "Common Cup" or "Community Cup."

Daniel Ken Inouye (/iːˈnoʊˌeɪ/ ee-NOH-ay; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American attorney, soldier, and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S.…

As Nokia prepares to launch the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, we take a look back at the history of the camera phone and highlight some of the top models over the years.

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Peter George Norman (15 June 1942 – 3 October 2006) was an Australian track athlete. He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a time of 20.06 seconds. This remains an Oceanian record. He was a five-time national…

Sean Bean can't stop, won't stop.

The U.S. vice presidency has been filled by a rogues gallery of mediocrities, criminals and even corpses

A new poster celebrating Sikh Heritage Month features a quote from 1867 in which Sir John A. Macdondald called for 'an army of Sikhs' to be sent from India to protect the country.

Several states have claimed interests over the sea bed adjoining Rockall, an uninhabitable granite islet which is located within the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the United Kingdom. Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, and the United Kingdom have all made submissions…

American unicycle hockey player & biological father of Jeff Bezos (1944-2015)

Aomori (Japanese: 青森市, Hepburn: Aomori-shi, IPA: [aoꜜmoɾi]; lit. "Blue Forest City") is the capital city of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. As of 1 April 2022[update], the city had an estimated population of 272,752 in 136,781 households…

A century ago, Douglas Mawson saw his two companions die and found himself stranded in the midst of Antarctic blizzards

The Edison Portland Cement Company was a venture by Thomas Edison that helped to improve the Portland cement industry. Edison was developing an iron ore milling process and discovered a market in the sale of waste sand to cement manufacturers. He decided…