Krishna Bhanji became Ben Kingsley – and now he's Sir Ben. Just don't call him "babes"...

emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor

Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)

Soviet swimmer

In the Mara River, about 4,000 hippos leave behind more than nine tons of dung each day, which can lead to fish being suffocated.

Annual Hindu festival originating from Nepal

United States Army nurse and prisoner of war

Sinaloan-Swedish physicist

problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize

missing person case

1977 narrowband radio signal from SETI

A new wireless terahertz communication system enables a super-cold quantum computer to send and receive data without generating too much error-causing heat.

Buried underneath the border-topping Mount Elgon, is a cave that, by night, is the foraging ground for a group of mining elephant. The Kitum cave elephant have adapted to the mineral poor environment surrounding Mt. Elgon by mining for salt under the earth.…

1988 murder in Cardiff

bright comet discovered in 1996

“I’m not interested in money or fame; I don’t want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.”

The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century onwards". It was not by virtue of the power of the Kingdom of France: '"... until the end of the fifteenth…

one of five positions in an orbital configuration of two large bodies where a small object can maintain a stable relative position

Lent is a season of fasting and reflection, and part of the fasting aspect of Lent includes not eating meat from land animals on Fridays, as it is described in Vatican II. The original McDonald’s menu only included hamburgers—so Catholics started avoiding…

Judging by the search engines, the question has created quite a buzz: are whales capable of emitting flatulence, gas... in short, farts? Given the level