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.

1942 nightclub fire in Boston, Massachusetts

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The outbreak of the First World War brought about many changes to life on the home front, including a long-lasting impact on the serving of alcoholic beverages. Public houses and beer had been a staple of British social and socialising life in the years before…

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A wildfire evacuee himself, Guy Fieri is helping thousands of displaced residents in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California.

After spending a winter trapped by ice in present-day Hudson Bay, the starving crew of the Discovery mutinies against its captain, English navigator Henry Hudson, and sets him, his teenage son, and seven supporters adrift in a small, open boat. Hudson and…

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If you owns luxury cars, please do not be offended by the following content, because this is only an academic research and there is no definite conclusion that who must be what. A 2012 study by Prof. Piff from the Department of Psychology, University of California…