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.

Polish-French physicist and chemist

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

homing pigeon used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps

American software developer

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.

According to The Guinness Book of World Records, the toughest tongue twister is 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick'. However, if researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are to be believed, there may be a new contender for that coveted…

Girls, 15, had been celebrating a birthday at the venue in northern city of Koszalin

It's something we can all learn from.

For several days early in 1917, May Bradford sat beside Corporal George Pendlebury in a British field hospital in France, comforting him and writing to his family as he edged towards death. By the