Australian skydiver Christopher Jones seized up while in free fall and was rescued by his instructor

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There’s more to this tool than meets the eye. Here are a few hidden features you will find within your tape measure.

Larry Bird claimed he was saving his right hand for the next opponent

Active listening entails both listening to what is said and replying with an accurate summary

The actor tells how he met Churchill when he came to see him as Hamlet at the Old Vic.

American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer

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Swiss luxury watch designer and manufacturer

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius scale (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale. The…

Deputy editor says 'how-to' story was meant as April Fool's joke

It can be done. How? Because of the Electoral College. In fact, through the years, the winner-take-all system the U.S. employs has skewed result after result.

American music television series featuring artists playing acoustic instruments

Ebenezer McBurney Byers (April 12, 1880 – March 31, 1932) was an American socialite, sportsman, and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming Radithor, a patent medicine made from…

Mao Zedong proposed sending 10 million women to the United States during talks with top US envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to newly released documents.

The lei tai is an elevated fighting arena, without railings, where often fatal weapons and bare-knuckle martial arts tournaments were once held. "Sanctioned" matches were presided over by a referee on the platform and judges on the sides. Fighters would lose…

As flat-screen technology killed CRT and rear projection, TVs grew lighter yet bigger, as well as more affordable than ever before.

In a letter to Robert Krulwich, Neil Armstrong reveals some unknown facts of the first lunar landing.

Hansard is the trannoscripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries. It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, who was the first official printer to the Parliament at Westminster.

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