CHINA claims to have found almost 30 surveillance bugs, including one in the headboard of the presidential bed, on a Boeing 767 that had just been delivered from America to serve as President Jiang Zemin's official aircraft.

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France…

traditional Hawaian feast

On September 8, 1941, German forces closed in around the Soviet city of Leningrad, initiating a siege that would last nearly 900 days and claim the lives of 800,000 civilians.

The Goths (Gothic: Gut-þiuda; Latin: Gothi) were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the long series of Gothic Wars and in the emergence…

How Claudette Colvin helped spark America's Civil Rights Movement at the age of 15.

“It was a — how do you call it in English? — a genocide? Yes? It was a genocide,” says Murat Yazar…

novel by Victor Hugo, 1831

After George Lucas ran into a buzzsaw of opposition from his wealthy Marin County neighbors when he tried to expand his Skywalker Ranch studio, the filmmaker might be getting some payback with plans for one of the largest affordable housing projects in the…

A couple of thousand tigers — many owned as pets — live in Texas. That gives the US state the second-largest population of the endangered species in the world, after India. It's a major challenge for tiger conservation.

street dog in Moscow

Operation Tracer was a secret Second World War military operation in Gibraltar, a British colony and military base. The impetus for the plan was the 1940 scheme by Germany to capture Gibraltar, code-named Operation Felix. Operation Tracer was the brainchild…

act of one or more inmates leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways

Everywhere you look in Japan, no doubt it’s hard to miss the widespread varieties of vending machines or 自動販売機/自販機 (Jidouhanbaiki/ Jihanki) in the country. From the most common products like warm and cold drinks to the most unusual selection of fruits, clothing…

example of Party logic presented in Nineteen Eighty-Four

The data is clear: Tipping encourages racism, sexism, harassment, and exploitation

When S. E. Hinton published her début novel, “The Outsiders,” in 1967, there was no young-adult market. Since then, Y.A. has garnered a huge following.

mistaken belief that more frequent chance events will lead to less frequent chance events, or vice versa, to balance out

BTS (Hangul: 방탄소년단; RR: Bangtan Sonyeondan), also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a seven-member South Korean boy band formed by Big Hit Entertainment in 2013. The name became a backronym for Beyond the Scene in July 2017. The band won several New Artist of…

Today, flapping wildly in the breeze and grinning maniacally with outstretched arms, the giant balloon men known as “tall boys” grace shopping malls, banks, and Family Guy cutaway gags, but these ubiquitous, colorful, arm-waving inflatable novelties have…

Mike Tyson was once the most feared boxer on the planet. Shorter than almost anyone in his weightclass - his combination of offensive footwork, seamless co