"Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such…

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Company orders Depew call staff to pay exterminators out of their own pockets.

Physician Jeffrey Kelman discusses the extensive health ailments President John F. Kennedy suffered during his lifetime.

She lived an unspeakable hell. As both an inmate and head women’s doctor at Auschwitz, Dr. Gisella Perl saved hundreds of lives with her bare hands.

Check this out: we're on the border of Tennessee and Georgia. We find a community that is split down the middle with a blue line painted through the town. It gets weirder (YAY!) -- the blue line goes straight through buildings. Shops, a church, even a bar.…

James Cameron (February 25, 1914 – June 11, 2006) was an American civil rights activist. In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Indiana. He also served as Indiana's State Director…

August Landmesser (born 24 May 1910;KIA 17 October 1944; confirmed in 1949) was a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. He is known as the possible identity of a man appearing in a 1936 photograph, conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi…

A greeble (/ˈɡriːbliː/) or nurnie is a fine detailing added to the surface of a larger object that makes it appear more complex, and therefore more visually interesting. It usually gives the audience an impression of increased scale. The detail can be made…

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher William Heinemann…

Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes in California have discovered a potential treatment route for the primary genetic risk factor for...Read More...

The neighbours of a Rotterdam woman who lay dead in her home for 10 years have told Nos television they...

Fossils unearthed in Argentina represent the most complete giant sauropod dinosaur ever discovered.

Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (born Coutances, 12 September 1725 – died Paris, 22 October 1792) was a French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. He made unsuccessful…

"Master of Sparks" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top from their 1973 album Tres Hombres.

Aside from his tech eminence having helped found Apple, Steve Wozniak is apparently also a pretty sick Tetris player. He only plays the original Game Boy port,...

How some disturbing real-life news reports about child welfare forced Big Bird to reveal his "imaginary" friend to the world.

Before he was a punk legend, he was an ice cream scooper.

Frank Sinatra's on-stage slur against female journalists in Melbourne in 1974 set in motion a bizarre whirlwind of events.

If you're reading this post there's a pretty good chance you're doing so on a computer. You're probably sitting in a wonderfully ergonomic office chair too. We have Charles Darwin to thank for the latter—sort of.