orangutan who appeared in silent films

There wasn’t much that was dainty about Hemingway. He was an avid big game hunter, he romanticized bullfighting, and then there was his wildly destructive drinking.  It’s all a bit… controversial. While I’m not here to glamorize binging your liver into oblivion…

For the last 59 years a team of Russian geneticists led by Lyudmila Trut have been running one of the most important biology experiments of the 20th, and now 21st, century. The experiment was the brainchild of Trut’s mentor, Dmitri Belyaev, who, in 1959,…

Mike Tyson vs. Kevin McBride was a professional boxing match contested on June 11, 2005. Although Tyson appeared to be ahead on points on the judges' scorecards through six rounds, he failed to answer the bell for the 7th round and was ruled defeated by technical…

Japanese supernatural beings

A re-processing of images of Uranus and Neptune taken by Voyager 2 show that these two planets are nearly alike in their colors.

Lenora Branch Fulani is an American psychologist, psychotherapist and political activist. In the 1988 presidential election, she became the first woman and the first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and received more votes for…

There are many employers who are military friendly in the way they recruit and hire employees. Learn about the companies known to help veterans.

English poet (1552–1599)

Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans…

Hundreds of years ago, haunting bugle-like calls echoed through these hills and valleys. The sounds were made by bull elk to attract mates and fend… This cont

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American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

funeral of the British princess Diana

punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses)

SS officer; aid to Nazi resistance (1905–1945)

This study contains information on the occurrence of agenesis of one to four third molars among the population and ethnic groups of Europe, North America, Africa and Asia (Japan), based on the results of investigations carried out by dozens of authors. Recent…

Cornell University Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center or Cornell Dairy is about a 25-minute drive from Cornell University's Ithaca, New York campus and is home to over 900 milk-producing cows. The milk is used to make various signature products, including…

Ever since a 71-year-old Brazilian man rescued this penguin, he's regularly travelled to his beach visit the man.

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.