IT HAPPENED ONE DAY IN HOLLYWOOD, sometime after the five-year run of her hit series "Rhoda" had ended but before her string of prestige appearances in five Woody Allen movies, before her supporting role on "The Tracey Ullman Show," before that indelible…

chain of restaurants

longest U.S. Senate filibuster

Oceans cover about 70 percent of the Earth's surface and about 97 percent of all water on and in the Earth is saline—there's a lot of salty water on our planet. By some estimates, if the salt in the ocean could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth’s…

studies of radiation effects on humans

Audrey Hepburn was, and still is, a Hollywood icon. The films she touched turned to gold as they became instant classics. There was one role the actress would not take on and that was of Anne Frank. The two shared many similarities as outlined in Robert Matzen's…

A low body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased mortality and low health-related quality of life in patients with COPD. The Asia-Pacific classification of BMI has a lower cutoff for overweight and obese categories compared to the World Health ...

defunct Peanut Processing Company

Bell peppers come in a rainbow of colors and have many health benefits. The variety and amount of time a bell pepper spends on the plant determines its color and ripeness.

Athletic Club (Basque: Bilboko Athletic Kluba; Spanish: Athletic Club de Bilbao), commonly known as just Athletic, is a Spanish professional football club based in the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country of Spain. They are known as Los Leones (The Lions)…

China has the highest pet dog population of about 110 million. Its capital city, Beijing, alone is estimated to have a dog population of about one million.

part of the digestive tract, following the stomach and followed by the large intestine fake

American tennis player

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday struck down a 6-year-old law that prohibits the distribution and possession of virtual child pornography that appears to -- but does not -- depict real children.

1990 aviation accident

The history of feature movie animation at the Oscars is also, in some ways, the history of Disney and its competitors.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon (/ˈmɪkəlɒn/), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ e miklɔ̃]), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France…

Erno Rubik, inventor of Rubik’s Cube, a popular toy of the 1980s. Rubik’s Cube consists of 26 small cubes that rotate on a central axis; nine coloured cube faces, in three rows of three each, form each side of the cube. When the cube is twisted out of its…

The types and amounts of petroleum products consumed annually in the United States, and a list of the top 5 gasoline consuming states.

crash of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter

1960s program by the United States Department of Defense to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards