People who oppose wind farms often claim wind turbine blades kill large numbers of birds, often referring to them as "bird choppers". And claims of dangers to iconic or rare birds, especially raptors, ...

Biography of Specialist McKinley

To save his own life, Joseph Dombey had an idea. As two pirate ships surrounded the ship he was on in the Caribbean Sea in 1794, Dombey scrambled below deck, disrobing as he went. He appropriated the...

The Lord of the Rings film series is a series of epic fantasy-drama films directed by Peter Jackson. The three films, ennoscriptd The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, were released serially worldwide between December 2001 and…

Despite four decades of performing and hearing the song, guitarist Brian May still enjoys what is undoubtedly his biggest hit. “I’m not sick of it,” he tells the BBC.

This droll, dry wit is precisely what I would have expected: > > Although the noscript of “best business card ever” may be held by this card: click for larger image Found by Matt Cutts in an old book purchased at a book sale.

Hint: It's not worth it.

 



When President John F. Kennedy traveled to West Berlin on June 26, 1963, he wanted to assure the people there—who were literally walled off from the eastern portion of their city by Communist Russia—that Americans stood with them. Ever the classicist…

Hint: It involved a long stick and a bucket of vinegar.

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (French pronunciation: ​[ɑ̃twan.ʒozɛf adɔlf saks]; 6 November 1814 – 7 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn…

'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' is the latest Terminator film to be reviewed in Jack Gooding's complete coverage of the franchise, here.

Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, Russian: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well traveled author, narrator, and Essayist from…

Others confirm some improvement seen in 2013 stinker

A century ago, a single square mile in the capital of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire was home to some of the most remarkable men of the 20th Century.

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Airlines long wanted to eliminate the secondary market in airline tickets, in order to enforce their revenue management strategies. If customers could buy and resell tickets, that makes it impossible for airlines to price discriminate between leisure travelers…

The bat version of the STING protein helps dampen the mammals' immune response to infection, researchers have found.

Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, creating the only grandfather–grandson…

Horses and mules played a major role in the American Civil War. In the end, there were about twice as many dead equines as humans.

What are 700 words worth? In Arnold Schwarzenegger's case, about a whopping $21,429 per word. Given his $15 million paycheck…