The pistachio (/pɪˈstɑːʃiˌoʊ, -ˈstæ-/,Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating from Central Asia and the Middle East. The tree produces seeds that are widely consumed as food.

The Hindenburg's aluminum piano was the first piano ever carried on a passenger aircraft.

N or M? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November of the same year. The US edition retailed $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings…

Angus Bucks, Angus Bills or AC/DC Dollars are fake, United States one-dollar bills featuring Angus Young, the lead guitarist from the Australian rock 'n' roll band AC/DC. Thousands were dropped on the audience as a theatrical gimmick at the end of the song…

The crazy horse name belonged to an endurance thoroughbred that one 34 races in the 18th Century.

As a college student during WWII, Japanese-American James Okubo was forced to drop out of Western Washington University and enter an internment camp. Now, the school is posthumously recognizing Okubo's academic achievements.

In the new movie Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin, a nonbeliever questions the Apple guru’s wisdom by reminding him of the saying “the customer is...

Over the next two decades, 87 new pilots need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every single day around the world in order to meet our insatiable demand to travel by air.

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The number of lives saved by CPR isn't as many as films and TV dramas would have you believe. Why is this the case, and what is the best way to do it?

The submarines HMS Vanguard and Triomphant collided in the Atlantic Ocean in the night between 3–4 February 2009. Both are nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The Royal Navy's HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Triomphant both sustained damage,…

Logan is a 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the X-Men character Wolverine. It is the tenth installment in the X-Men film series, as well as the final installment in the Wolverine trilogy, after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The…

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The Dinkleberg family is a family that lives in Dimmsdale next door to the Turner family. The only known members are Sheldon Dinkleberg and his wife, Mrs. Dinkleberg. The Dinklebergs moved in next...

Slavutych (Ukrainian: Славу́тич) is a city in northern Ukraine, purposely built for the evacuated personnel of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the 1986 disaster that occurred near the city of Pripyat. Geographically located within the Ripky Raion…

Flossie Wong-Staal (born August 27, 1947), née Wong Yee Ching (Chinese: 黄以静; pinyin: Huáng Yǐjìng), is a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major…

NASA needed a supercomputer to get us to the Moon, and it had to be generations ahead of the state of the art at the time.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. Before his accession to the presidency, Ford served…