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The death-obsessed and inward-looking Aztec civilisation sowed the seeds of its own destruction, argues Tim Stanley.

Only 60% of the cow is harvested for food, and the rest ends up in some surprising places.

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How did invasive Burmese pythons overrun the Florida Everglades? One of the state's most powerful hurricanes played a key role

“The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others [because of his] unspeakably disgusting life.” – Barthold Georg Niebuhr Last week, we covered Czar Peter III of Russia, a creepy man-child who liked to play with toy soldiers and who had very little…

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In the wake of Hugh Hefner's passing, it's been revealed that he will be buried beside Marilyn Monroe after paying over £55,000 for a neighbouring plot.

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"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic…

Queen Elizabeth II won't live forever. Here's what will happen next.

Online shaming is a form of Internet vigilantism in which targets are publicly humiliated using technology like social and new media. Proponents of shaming see it as a form of online participation that allows hacktivists and cyber-dissidents to right injustices.…

People with red hair often are afraid of the dentists because local numbing agents don’t work as well on redheads.

  Located in the fertile agricultural region of Argentina’s ‘Pampas’ is a guitar shaped forest made up of over 7,000 cypress and eucalyptus trees. At over a kilometer in leng…

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Contaminated haemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985.

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There have been many past tort cases involving questions of whether pools had sufficient lifeguards at a pool to avoid a drowning. The City of New Orleans could face a rather unique tragedy where a…