Sir Lord Baltimore toured with Sabbath and were a core influence on the stoner rock movement. Singer/drummer John Garner looks back at the drugs, dysfunction and dirty deeds that doomed them

He invented ebooks and made them freely available through Project Gutenberg

The Founding Father spent his post-presidency years presiding over a booming alcohol business

The 4-inch-by-5-inch tintype depicts Billy the Kid playing croquet in the summer of 1878. The only other known photo of the outlaw was taken in 1880 and sold for $2.3 million in 2010.

Tupac Shakur was in serious debt before his death in 1996.

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Officials intentionally crashed a jet aircraft into a nuclear reactor facility to prepare for the worst-case scenario: a real-world terrorist attack on vital infrastructure.

If you've ever drank beer out of a can, you can thank Gottfried Krueger Brewery. They were the first ones, 78 years ago today, to put the tasty beverage in a can and offer it up to consumers

How a fight between rival Compton gangs turns into a plot of retaliation and murder.

Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS (Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes topics…

There's nothing quite as relaxing as a nice bubble bath at the end of the day. However, take one during a thunderstorm and you may have a shocking experience instead.

American musician and pipe bomber

Anecdotal evidence suggests a spike in suicides occurred after the publication of Goethe's <i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i> in 1774. Imitation suicides elicited by media portrayals of suicide have since been termed the "Werther effect." However, evidence…

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Minnesota man Nick Wig was arrested Thursday on a count of felony after allegedly breaking into a Dakota County home and logging into his Facebook account on the homeowner James Wood’s computer.

If you have been looking for an apartment in Germany, you might have noticed that they often rented without furniture and sometimes without a kitchen. It can be a perfect apartment, with beautiful windows, floors, bathroom but what about the kitchen? So why…

1st century BC Indian philosopher and monk

Irish businessman, CEO of Ryanair Group

Immortality is a common characteristic of cancers, but its origin and purpose are still unclear. Here we advance a karyotypic theory of immortality based on the theory that carcinogenesis is a form of speciation. Accordingly, cancers are generated from ...