In a reference so obscure only the most determined fan would find it, Game of Thrones' in-house linguist translated insults from Monty Python into the show's Low Valyrian language

Panda diplomacy is China's use of giant pandas as diplomatic gifts to other countries. The practice existed as far back as the Tang dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian (625–705) sent a pair of pandas to the Japanese emperor.

A new scientific study has reached the conclusion that the fresh water found in Puerto Williams town in southern Chile's Magallanes region is the purest in ...

The Letter of Last Resort is a handwritten letter from the Prime Minister to the commanding officer of each of Trident's submarines...

Major bovine linguistic breakthrough

"What a stupid question!" I bet this is the natural reaction of many readers once they see the noscript of this article. Indeed it is a dream of any chess fan to play like Magnus Carlsen. OK, let me rephrase the original question: Should we play our openings…

LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 70 percent of British men and half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, geneticists in Switzerland said.

In 2010, I wrote a story about Bill Murray that examined his unique status with the current crop of moviemakers…

Cobalt is named for the German word “kobold,” or goblin. The association wasn’t innocent. It got the name because cobalt was responsible for the horrible and mysterious deaths of miners.

“My whole damn life has been worth it just for this moment.”

Check out Empire to find out all about the Three Stooges; the 1940s comedy legends whose fame resulted in them being considered Hitler's personal enemy!

The American animated science fiction sitcom Futurama, created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company, aired on Fox from March 28, 1999, to August 10, 2003; Cartoon Network's Adult Swim aired reruns of the show from 2003 through 2007. Following…

Shena Hardin of Cleveland kept driving up on a sidewalk to get around a stopped school bus. After the police nabbed her, a judge ordered her to stand at the scene of the crime for two mornings with a sign saying that only an idiot would do that.

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Bill Hader talks with the New Yorker deputy editor of Talk of the Town, Lizzie Widdicombe, on what it’s like working for “South Park” and coming up with the Kanye West fish-sticks episode.

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The Europeans of the 1500's were masters of making things hard -- like church bells, ships, and armor. But the Incas and Aztecs were masters of tension: of fabric. And their sandwiched cotton armor was arguably better than steel.

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (/ˈaɪvən/; Russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич, tr. Ivan Vasilyevich; 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible (Russian: Ива́н Гро́зный​ (help·info), Ivan Grozny; "Ivan the Formidable" or "Ivan the Fearsome")…

Sabiha Gökçen (Turkish: [sabiha ɟœctʃæn]; 22 March 1913 – 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator. She was the world's first female fighter pilot, aged 23. Others such as Marie Marvingt and Evgeniya Shakhovskaya preceded her as military pilots in other roles…

Kevin and Annette Shanahan are lucky to be alive. One night last month Annette, of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, woke up in tremendous pain. “I had gotten up because I thought I was having a heart attack," she told ABC News. “You’re so fuzzy you can’t make a reasonable…