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Russian novelist (1821–1881)

Snoop Dogg says Dionne Warwick confronted him over misogynistic lyrics during a meeting with other rappers in the '90s.

After shooting dead a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo to save a 3-year-old boy, zoo officials said they had collected a sample of his sperm, raising hopes among distraught fans that Harambe could sire offspring even in death.

The resemblance went unnoticed for decades.

1973 screenplay and abandoned film by Jens Jørgen Thorsen

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One of the highly-recognized and honorable medals awarded to American service member is the Purple Heart given to those injured or killed in combat. Originating in 1782 when George Washington called it the Badge of Merit, many of these medals can be seen…

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products that critics decry as an environmental catastrophe.

Nearly two decades before the onset of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II set his imperialistic sights on the Americas. But to establish a presence there, Germany would have to put the U.S. in its place. To that end, it devised not one, but three plans to attack…

OJHAS is India's first, online-only, peer reviewed, open access, biomedical journal; now archived in Cogprints

In the 1990s, Japan's economic bubble burst, forcing the country's real estate and stock markets to fall, prompting the Bank of Japan to decrease interest rates to boost the economy.

Have you ever seen black people with blond hair? Melanesians are the black island people in the south Pacific that migrated thousands of years ago. The original inhabitants of the group of islands now named Melanesia were likely the ancestors of the present…

Storage Wars (stylized as STORAGE WAR$) is an American reality television competition series that airs on the A&E network. It initially aired for twelve seasons, from December 1, 2010, to January 30, 2019. A 13th season premiered in April 2021. A 15th season…

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