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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…

“You have to make sacrifices to stay alive longer.” “I choose the work I want to do and it makes me happy to go and do it.”

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Singapore (/ˈsɪŋ(ɡ)əpɔːr/ (listen)), officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: Republik Singapura; Chinese: 新加坡共和国; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு), is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator…

The rescue of the Danish Jews occurred during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark during World War II. On October 1, 1943, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered Danish Jews to be arrested and deported. The Danish resistance movement, with the assistance of many…

Róbert Berény (1887 – 1953 in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter, one of the avant-garde group known as The Eight who introduced cubism and expressionism to Hungarian art in the early twentieth century before the First World War. He had studied and exhibited…

H. Ross Parrot was a character on Sesame Street (remade from the Poco Loco puppet) who spoofed the Reform Party presidential candidate H. Ross Perot. He first appeared in the spring of 1993...

Country tries to fight worrying rise in accidents caused by over-75s by offering discounts on ramen if they give up driving

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The dead serious 1508 trial of rats in Autun, France.

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Dozens of groups have sprung up across the country, providing retirees with new friends and, ultimately, cheaper funerals

BALTO was the sled dog who became a national hero, symbolizing rescue efforts to get supplies of diphtheria antitoxin serum to Nome, Alaska. When diph...

What Really Happened? delves into historical moments and questions their accuracy – such as the time the champion boxer talked a Vietnam vet down from the ninth floor of a building. Elsewhere, our podcast picks explore Islamophobia, linguistics and neuroscience

After threatening not to return until an equity clause was removed from contestants' contracts, Mark Cuban finally got his way.

Baseball Almanac presents Town Ball : The Rules of the Massachusetts Game.