The policy of racial segregation - known as apartheid - meant South Africa was barred from taking part at the Olympics from 1964-1988. Find out why that happened and how the country was reintegrated back into the Olympic family.

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A blind woman from Vancouver Island is not sure she'll ever fly alone again after she was forgotten by flight attendants and locked in a deserted plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

unidentified man who hijacked an airplane in 1971

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vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953

Paleontologists say more non-avian dinos are waiting to be uncovered than have previously been found

About 10 years ago, Electronic Arts developed and then canceled a game about Jack the Ripper. This is its story.

Scientists have linked cancer cases to the Thai dish

Australian astrophysicist who died of poisoning in Antarctica

American cryptographer (1900-1976)

ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games

A U.S. briefing book comparing the U.K. to the size of the state causes a row

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Althing, unicameral legislature of Iceland. Founded at Thingvellir in southwestern Iceland c. 930, it is one of the oldest national parliaments in the world. While representative assemblies were widespread in medieval Scandinavia, the Althing was the first…

According to a 2004 memo, the U.S. Strategic Air Command once intentionally set the launch codes at all Minuteman missile silos in the U.S. to eight zeroes.

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The story of how Doris Stauffer became part of a military experiment against family wish casts light on a growing but unregulated industry: human body brokers.