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

English captain and pirate

So here's something you rarely get to see... a freaking rain bomb, or the technical term 'microburst'! I've never heard of that term either, but it's actually really a thing. Basically, it happens when hot, dry air rises and mixes with heavy rain-bearing…

While we’re fortunate now to have highly regulated clinical trials, this wasn’t always the case. Sometimes bold, sometimes misguided, these seven scientists undertook experiments on themselves and contributed (for better or for worse) to the medical field…

The new movie Elvis & Nixon is a fictionalized account of the bizarre meeting on Dec. 21, 1970 between President Richard M. Nixon and Elvis Presley. Photos and documents, however, provide a window directly into the actual conversation, during which Elvis…

AIRPLANE! is a remake of ZERO HOUR, the 1957 movie. Here are some scenes from the two films.

The Hollow Nickel Case (or the Hollow Coin) was the FBI investigation that grew out of the discovery of a container disguised as a U.S. coin and containing a coded message, eventually found to concern espionage activities of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (a.k.a.…

Welsh pirate

Answers to your burning questions about the popular HGTV show "House Hunters:" Is it fake? Do participants get paid? Do they really look at 3 houses?

John Crace: John Milton, whose 400th birthday is celebrated this year, is responsible for introducing some 630 words to the English language, making him the country's greatest neologist, ahead of Ben Jonson with 558, John Donne with 342 and Shakespeare with…

Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman, a heavy smoker, once defended his habit by arguing that it helped his country's finances.

Daniel Ken Inouye (井上 建, Inoue Ken, /iːˈnoʊˌeɪ/ ee-NOH-ay; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he was President…

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