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Gump & Co. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel Forrest Gump (1986), and the Academy Award-winning film of the same name released in 1994, with Tom Hanks. It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout…

Benjamin Lay (1682 – February 8, 1759) was an Anglo-American Quaker humanitarian and abolitionist. He is best known for his early and strident anti-slavery activities which would culminate in dramatic protests. He was also an author, farmer, and early vegetarian.

Mark Powell, Sales Director for Rolls-Royce Tampa Bay demonstrates the latest anti-theft technology on every new Rolls-Royce.

During the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev and JFK wrote to one another regularly, and even exchanged gifts. One from Khrushchev was a dog, called Pushinka.

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Did Disneyland's dress code once prohibit the admission of long-haired males?

Members of the question-and-answer site Quora submitted their picks for the smartest moves in business. Here are three to study.

Albert Stevens (1887–1966), also known as patient CAL-1, was a victim of a human radiation experiment, and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. On May 14, 1945, he was injected with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his…

A thagomizer is the distinctive arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.

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Film star Sir Michael Caine has told how he once held Sean...

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On the anniversary of the closing of America’s most infamous prison, explore 10 surprising facts about Alcatraz.

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Arguably Buster Keaton's most infamous stunt!

The previous day, Vaughan had relayed to his bandmates a disturbing dream he had where he witnessed his own funeral. That evening, the guitarist, with his band Double Trouble, joined as special guests for a concert at the Alpine Valley Musical Theater, along…

The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986, in the No. 4 nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat, in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. The accident occurred during a late…

Source: mtlblog.com Traditionally in North America, many students plan some kind of trip or vacation after their graduation as a way to blow off steam before heading out into the “real world”. But why wait until you’re done with school? You can just as easily…

Victims of exposure and hypothermia never have a good time of it, but sometimes they engage in a behavior that's both understandable and horrifying. It's called "terminal burrowing behavior," and involves losing their minds, running away, and crawling into…

Russian prosecutors have launched a new investigation into the mysterious case of nine students who died in bizarre circumstances after disappearing on a skiing trip 60 years ago.