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…

'Katie's Revenge' Tattooed On Jailed Prisoner Who Killed 10-Year-Old Girl

Belle Gunness had some skeletons in her closet.

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer

Carnivorous plant that captures prey by quickly closing its leaves into a jaw-like trap

Barbara Daly Baekeland  One mother who most certainly seduced her son was Barbara Daly Baekeland. Born in 1922, Baekeland was a model whose face graced the pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. After failing to make it in Hollywood as an actress, she married…

The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry

The labrador retriever has saved a dozen lives throughout her career

Author Natasha Dow Schüll talks about the evolution of slot machines, exploring how and why they've become so addictive.

American mass murderer

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Find senex (Noun) in the Latin Online Dictionary with English meanings, all fabulous forms & inflections and a conjugation table: senex, senis, seni, senem, senes, senum

Chocolate bars, toilet rolls, breakfast cereal and toothpaste are just some of the thousands of products that have been getting smaller, but what is really driving 'shrinkflation'?

High-rise syndrome is the phenomenon of cats falling from higher than two stories (7–9 m (23–30 ft)). This is generally from high-rise buildings, or skyscrapers, and is also used to refer to the injuries sustained by a cat falling from a great height.

While St. Patrick’s Day is cause to celebrate everything Irish-American, it’s also a good time to ponder just why more than a million Irish were forced to leave Ireland while another million were dying of starvation in such a short period of time in the first…