Nick-named "the maid of Orleans" Joan of Arc was born around 1410 into a peasant family and into a France beset by internal conflicts and under attack from the English. At the age of 12 she claimed to have had her first vision of saints and angels eventually…

Striking the right balance between shielding impressionable young minds from junk food marketing, without taking aim at industry jobs

William Bendix was most certainly not the Sultan of Swat.

Keira Knightley (born March 26, 1985) played Queen Amidala's handmaiden Sabé in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace at the age of twelve during August 1997 at Leavesden Film Studios, England...

Grosvenor Square /ˈɡroʊvnər/ is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the surname "Grosvenor".

After clawing her way to the top at Red Lobster, Edna Morris is out as the chain’s president for letting hungry customers eat too much of its all-you-can-eat crab dinners. She tried to boost

It is 200 years ago since the last frost fair took place on a frozen Thames. Could such hedonism be repeated today?

Baby Boomer Deathclock How many have died how many are alive total how many die per day deaths per day or second how many died today

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An overview of the Asoh Defense.

The sex lives of people living in the Greco-Roman era were apparently more shocking and perverted than previously thought.

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To begin, don’t dismiss the humble acquaintance.

Mark Ruffalo gets candid in a new interview with Men's Journal, opening up about his brother Scott Ruffalo's shocking death almost five years ago.
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English writer and social critic

They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable. Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members

The Cassandra metaphor (variously labelled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", or "curse") occurs when valid warnings or concerns are dismissed or disbelieved.

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Low-background steel is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. With the Trinity test and the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and then subsequent nuclear weapons testing during the…

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was later renamed Popeye after the sailor character that became the most popular member of the cast; however, Olive Oyl was a main character for…

Onfim (Old Novgorodian: онѳиме, Onfime; also, Anthemius of Novgorod) was a boy who lived in Novgorod in the 13th century. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark (beresta) which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim…