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

Asbestos has been used for centuries and the amount of worldwide use, including importing & exporting per country, has changed throughout the years.

The residents of Skimore watched as the town bully was shot dead in broad daylight. The question still remains: Who killed him?

electromechanical machine used to summarise information and perform accounting calculations

English archaic personal pronoun

musician

Cards Against Humanity has purchased a 6-acre private island in Maine and is doling out 1-square-foot parcels to participants in its holiday fundraising campaign.

A woman in a remote village carried out the first successful DIY caesarean section. "This is the one," says Ines Ramirez. From the corner of her one-roomed house, she picks up a wooden-handled knife with a six-inch blade. "I use it to cut fruit and vegetables…