On September 14, 1920, a formerly enslaved African American woman in her 100s at long last entered her name in the local voter registry. Her story is a powerful reminder for us all.

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The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The naming of the dead.

"Bicycle Race" is a single by the British rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album Jazz and written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A-side single together with the song "Fat Bottomed Girls". The song is notable…

Owners must be told some breeds are born to a lifetime of suffering, even if it means upsetting clients and putting livelihoods on the line

Harold Allen Ramis (/ˈreɪmɪs/; November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian. His best-known film acting roles were as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes…

Maodun, the Chinese word for ‘contradiction’, is an unusual compound word that brings together two ancient weapons from the battlefields of China.

Examining the phenomenon of the faux-foreign product.

The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language in the late 1810s and early 1820s. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he could not previously read any noscript. He first experimented with logograms…

The history of chiropractic began in 1895 when Daniel David Palmer of Iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor, Harvey Lillard. While Lillard was working without his shirt on in Palmers office, Lillard bent over to empty…

The Honourable Violet Albina Gibson (31 August 1876 – 2 May 1956) was an Anglo-Irish woman, the daughter of Lord Ashbourne. She attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926.

Are witnesses ever relocated somewhere cool? Or just the middle of nowhere?

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Back in mid-September, “Breaking Bad” gave us its best episode ever in “Ozymandias, on the exact same day I wound up in the hospital with a burst appendix and a […]

The Husum Red Pied (German: Rotbuntes Husumer) is a rare breed of domestic pig with the nickname Danish Protest pig (German: Husumer Protestschwein and Danish: Husum protestsvin or danske protestsvin). It originates in North Frisia in Southern Schleswig in…

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a socially conservative advocacy group of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States. The group was founded in 2002 and claims to have over 500 members, although independent sources…

The descendants of Charles II of England, Stuart monarch of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of France, are numerous; lines from his many illegitimate children exist to this day. Although Charles's wife Catherine of…

In a motion picture, television program or video game, the opening credits or opening noscripts are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static…

There are plenty of things even the most ardent fans don't know about The Lord of the Rings author John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

It's rude to leave a party without seeking out the host.