Ninety-five years after its inception, learn 10 fascinating facts about America’s nearly 14-year “noble experiment” in alcohol prohibition.

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In his new "30 for 30" short, Shawn Bradley admits that he got fined $10,000 once for refusing to attend a team meeting at a strip club.

Around the 1670s, Sir Isaac Newton's conceptual understanding of physics prompted him to invent the complicated math known as calculus.

The Sterile Cockpit Rule is an informal name for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulation stating that all operators certificate holders shall not require, nor may any flight crewmember perform, any duties during a critical phase of flight except…

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Re A (conjoined twins) [2001] 2 WLR 480 is a Court of Appeal decision on the separation of conjoined twins. The case raised several legal, ethical and religious dilemmas including whether it would be permissible to kill one of the children to save the other…

In 1956, a drunken Thomas Fitzpatrick made a barroom bet, and then to win it he stole a plane in New Jersey and plopped it down on St. Nicholas Avenue. He did something similar two years later.

1960 American western film directed by John Sturges

Though autism did not become the mainstream diagnosis it is today until well into the 20th century, it is certainly not anything new. Indeed, history is full of people who many consider to be or have been somewhere on the autism spectrum. Like the 30 people…

Scott Robson article on confusion of writers, producers and executives about what they can and cannot say and show on TV; says some network officials contend that election-year posturing in Washington is resulting in most conservative television environment…

There you are, at a folk music festival or an intimate theater or even a local coffeehouse. And, dang, if that guy up on stage, the one strumming a guitar and singing mighty fine, doesn’t look just like that actor from Deliverance, The Onion Field, Taps,…

MPTP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine) is a prodrug to the neurotoxin MPP+, which causes permanent symptoms of Parkinson's disease by destroying dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain. It has been used to study disease models…

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The menu is like a poetic distillation of the regions of Thailand from which the chef took his inspiration.

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Read about the history and future of Earth’s sun as well as fun facts about the sun’s age, size, temperature, and phenomena like solar flares.

'Psychic' incorrectly predicted the death of Amanda Berry in 2004 – not the first time she's been wrong about a missing person

“It’s always a pleasure watching these endearing little creatures as they go about their business.”

book by Jules Verne

American inventor and industrialist