The first recorded outbreak of syphilis in Europe occurred in 1494/1495 in Naples, Italy, during a French invasion. Because it was spread by returning French troops, the disease was known as "French disease", and it was not until 1530 that the term "syphilis"…

General elections were held in Liberia in 1927. In the presidential election, the result was a victory for Charles D. B. King of the True Whig Party, who was re-elected for a third term after defeating Thomas J. Faulkner of the People's Party.

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"Me and him didn't get along that great anyway," the musician says of Joel Schumacher.

Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, better known as Krusty the Clown (sometimes spelled as Krusty the Klown), is a cartoon character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He is the long-time clown host…

How a rogue Romanian economist escaped poverty, wrote an algorithm, and gamed more than a dozen lotteries around the world.

Lost your passport in Austria? In need of assistance? If you're a US citizen, there's a new way to deal with common travel problems.

The first mass extinction on earth occurred around 2.5 billion years ago, when a photosynthesizing bacterium appeared and released so much oxygen into the atmosphere that anaerobic life was largely

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Eat your heart out, Lassie! Masha, a long-haired tabby cat, saved the life of a baby abandoned in the streets of Russia — after she climbed into the box he was discarded in and kept him warm,

Impress your traveling companions on your next trip by reading up on the parks' most fascinating facts and behind-the-scenes details.

16 year old Homan Walsh flew a kite across the Niagara Falls from the Canadian side to the American shoreline thus inspiring the idea of the first bridge.

The 20th century's worst dictator, future British politicians and a father later send to a concentration camp by the country he fought for were among those who served during the Battle of the Somme.

The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people around the world, including…

The Museum of Modern Art made an embarrassing mistake in 1961, when it hung a Henri Matisse cut-out work upside down for 47 days.

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From Einstein's final speech to Steve Jobs' last moments with his family, these are the parting thoughts of some of the last century's greatest icons.

Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/;French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first…

A diver in South Africa survived an experience out of a biblical passage last month when he ended up almost being swallowed by a whale.