It is one of the largest cemeteries in the country.

A PROUD PAST, A THRILLING FUTURE Angus Wynne, founder of Six Flags, would be proud of the company's rise to preeminent standing in the family entertainment industry. A pioneer in the truest sense of the word, Mr. Wynne broke new ground when he opened the…

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Q: I heard Jason Mraz lives on an avocado farm. Is that true? —Michael M., Dallas A: Yep! “It was kind of an accident,” says Mraz, 36, who makes his home outside San Diego and is featured on the a cappella group Straight No Chaser’s new album, Under the Influence.…

Pity the English. Not only are they cursed with bad weather, and the habit of talking about it all the time, they also fear eye contact with strangers in long corridors.

“It was so crazy. Like a time warp, basically."

Zora Neale Hurston’s searing book about the final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, is being published nearly a century after it was written.

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Basically that was the premise of a stunt at the Hammerstein Victorian Theatre in New York in 1907. The theatre offered $1,000.00 to anyone who could get

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Quite literally The Great Escape

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Do you ever find yourself wistfully fantasizing about some great event in your future, a life shaking change-up, a glamorous new material purchase [...]

Trevor, the only duck on the Pacific island of Niue, lived in a puddle and was cared for by locals.

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April 1974, the 2nd-largest tornado outbreak ever in a 24-hour period

While at times funny, informative and engaging, the film has the curious problem of being at once too long and not being thorough enough.

This holiday weekend, Americans will be cavorting on the beach, many of them in swimwear that covers as little as possible. In 2006, Julia Turner...

The actor Instagrams an epic throwback Thursday pic, and also reveals information about his past

When in public, it is expected that most people will try to hold in a fart. But do you know what exactly happens to the unpassed gas? The answer might surprise you.