Italian mystic and nun

1997 film by Jan de Bont

The late actor was also an amateur drummer, as well as an inventor with four patents to his credit. His lost prototypes for tuning conga drums were recently uncovered in a West Los Angeles storage facility.

aspect of history

American actress and singer (born 1993)

Tribute to Florence Mills, star of 1920s black theatre & Harlem Renaissance.

type of hamburger originating in central Connecticut, U.S.

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously…

Canadian ice hockey player and businessman

first cat sent to space, on 18 October 1963 as part of the French space program

Ed Kemper: “I wouldn’t blame [Mullin], I was in a jail cell right next to him for months and I was in prison up in the hole here, in the lockup unit, for going on three years with him. About two-and-a-half years, and at one point, I got him a job in the kitchen.…

When astronaut Bill Oefelein dumped fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak for someone else, Nowak didn't exactly take it well.

Canadian actor (1950–1994)

American pornographic actress, later anti-porn activist

When Tokyo’s Imperial Palace was worth more than California and golf club membership could cost US$3 million – Japan’s economic golden age was one wild time

1856 speech by Abraham Lincoln

An investigation published in ‘Science’ estimates the cartels contain around 175,000 people and recruit some 350 new members every week to cover losses from violence and imprisonment

"Another Simpsons Clip Show" is the third episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 25, 1994. In the episode, Marge reads a romance novel in…

American Syndrome X patient

While thousands of books have been written about President John F. Kennedy's life, White House tenure and assassination, there's still a few things you perhaps never knew about our 35th president.

Find out which saint was tortured on a wheel for refusing to renounce her faith