American writer (1896–1940)

At 47-meters, the Götheborg of Sweden is the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world. Launched in 2005, it was based on an 18th-century

Patrolling the streets and squares of the bustling city as arbiters of the level of ostentation that was deemed appropriate, the sumptuary magistrates were quite simply the Fashion Police.

Ever wonder why women usually take their husband's last name? We explain the origins of the tradition and offer surname alternatives.

New research details how this Japanese water beetle travels through the bowels of its predator to emerge out the other end, alive and unharmed

Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...

Dominique Dunne was tragically murdered by an ex in 1982.

$2M sale bests $1.56M sale of Super Mario 64 in July

In his new book, Tony Bennett reveals he met his wife's parents at a show in 1966

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing…

Specialist car insurance providers, Keith Michaels, used a Spotify API to analyse over 900 songs from driving playlists and studied the beat per minute (BPM) and energy rating of each track to decide which would have the most significant negative impact on…

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 188 Tuesday, March 28, making the smell of roasting green chile the official New Mexico state aroma.

The new movie spoofs music biopics, but a few of the wilder details have some basis in reality.

US legislation

American investor, entrepreneur and businessman

Prior to the first Moon landing, scientists had good reason to believe the lunar surface was covered in a fine layer of dust. While this might not sound like a big deal, it presented a host of concerns to the Apollo mission planners.

They may look cute, but the matriarchal meerkat society is deadly.

Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Heat-Induced Brain Vitrification from the Vesuvius Eruption in c.e. 79

Children's illustrator and writer

It wasn’t just the fictional 1980s version of Astoria, Oregon, that had to deal with The Goonies, as one of the men responsible for the kid gang revealed during a new reunion of the cast of the 198…