British comedy television series (1990–1995)

Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. He ascended the throne on the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf, on 15 September 1973.

William Shatner memoir written with Chris Kreski

American actor

Bluntly stated, music is in the end just applied physics. Harmony follows — depending on the genre — a more or less fixed set of rules, and there  are a limited amount of variation poss…

samurai

Family offices are private wealth management advisory firms that serve ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

A pot belly can be a bad thing, even if you're not considered overweight.

Firefighters in many places have embraced the use of “wetting agents” as part of their everyday operational tactics. In order to be more efficient in their work of distinguishing fires…

photograph taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II

phantom island in New Caledonia

Congolese student

‘BONER4U,’ ‘EFTRUMP,’ and ‘F1STM3’ are among the vanity plate requests rejected by the state

Philly saw its teams make the World Series, Super Bowl and Finals in the NHL and NBA. Learn about the teams of 1980 Philadelphia sports.

French jester

A Rube Goldberg machine is intentionally designed to perform a simple task in the most indirect and circuitous fashion possible. Meet the funny man behind these one-of-a-kind contraptions.

It may seem hard to believe, but as late as 1942, male patients in some mental hospitals were castrated to quiet them. This extreme treatment did have some scientific basis, since testosterone, the

In the years that followed World War II, there was a surprising new version of the Gold Rush – this time, instead of gold, many in the US was gripped by “uranium fever.” An estimated ten thousand people headed to the Southwest attempting to make their fortunes…

American businessman

You've Come a Long Way, Baby is the second studio album by Fatboy Slim, a project of English electronic music producer Norman Cook. It was first released on 19 October 1998 in the United Kingdom by Skint Records and a day later in the United States by Astralwerks.…