hypothesized effect of blood lead levels on criminal behavior

Tlaloc - Learn about this god of rain, fertility, and lightening. How could the ancient Aztecs appease this god?

memorial in Postman's Park, London

5. Draco Was Applauded to Death Draco the Lawgiver (flourished 7th century BC) was an Ancient Athenian legislator who reformed the city’s legal system with law codes and courts to enforce them, replacing traditional tribal oral laws and blood feuds. The Athenians…

American actor, comedian, director and producer

A liquor store is a retail shop that predominantly sells prepackaged alcoholic beverages — typically in bottles — intended to be consumed off the store's premises. Depending on region and local idiom (social issue), they may also be called bottle store,…

The election of the president and the vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the 50 U.S. states or in Washington, D.C. cast ballots not directly for those offices…

Theresienstadt was used by the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a "model ghetto" for fooling Red Cross representatives about the ongoing Holocaust and the Nazi plan to murder all Jews. The Nazified German Red Cross visited the ghetto in 1943 and filed the only accurate…

"If you don't want to look at the building, look at this."

Over 450 years later, Hans Steininger's deadly facial hair is still on display.

Can they really police your feet?

Bob Dylan showed up, sparked up, and changed the Beatles' lives (and ours) forever, on this day in 1964 (so the story goes)!

A jury handed some bad news Thursday to the man leasing the World Trade Center site with a verdict that denied him double insurance payments.

Operation Outward was a British World War II program to attack Germany by means of free-flying balloons. It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen. They carried either a trailing steel wire intended to damage high voltage power lines by producing…

And if you did…you'd be just like these famous people who also didn't wind up with a full set of 10 fingers.

American mainstream and pornographic actress, producer, film director, writer and singer

The world celebrated, feared and commercialized the spectacular return of America's first space station.

On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics published new recommendations for “Preventing Obesity and Eating Disorders in Adolescents.” The...

Meadows and grasslands were an intrinsic part of British agriculture, but a staggering decline has left this important habitat covering just 1% of the UK

1986 film directed by Jim Henson