Christian X (Danish: Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, in the form of a personal union rather than a real union…

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How a misunderstanding between a British brigadier and US general led to disaster on a Korean battlefield

Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total assets. Wachovia…

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Belgium and the Netherlands have agreed a deal that will end a border crisis which included a peninsula that saw illegal raves, drug dealing, prostitution, and even a headless corpse

Canada voted Touch-Tone fee "Canada's dumbest charge" on Marketplace last fall. Now, the fee is disappearing from phone bills, but customers are still paying the unpopular charge in the cost of a landline.

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Fighter safely lands after accelerating through cloud of its own shells.

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Astronaut Walter Schirra's decision to bring a Swedish-made Hasselblad on his Mercury spaceflight set the course for NASA's choice of the camera for the Apollo lunar program.

Find out which American presidents have decided against running for reelection.

Why do we often have chills with a fever? The answer will surprise you.

Grylls had been skydiving over Zambia when his parachute failed to inflate and he landed on his pack. The TV presenter, who was 21-year-old at the time had to go through a year of rehabilitation.

The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated…

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A remorseful 71-year-old man who robbed a Kansas City, Kan., bank last September and told police he hoped to land in prison to escape his wife told a federal judge Tuesday that heart surgery had left him depressed and unlike himself when he committed the…

counterintuitive observation that the coastline of a landmass does not have a well-defined length

Donkey Kong Country is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is a reboot of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise and follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as…

Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as improvisation, a large region of the brain involved…

Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling (or Max Schmeling vs. Joe Louis) refers to two separate fights between the men which are among boxing's most talked-about bouts. Schmeling took the first match in 1936 by a knockout in round 12 and Louis won the second bout in…