The fuzzy felt soles on Converse and other imported shoe soles are actually just another example of "tariff engineering."

On television, we found more than 1,100 noscripts received Pentagon backing – 900 of them since 2005, from ‘Flight 93’ to ‘Ice Road Truckers’ and ‘Army Wives’

Halle Berry: The best dressed actress is an advocate for ending violence against women, an advocate for individuals with disabilities, and has been fighting for virtually her whole life.

19th century Russian Empire fortress in Poland

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Did Jimi "kill" Clapton?
Who shows up to a Cream concert and request to jam with Eric Clapton? NO ONE... unless of course you're Jimi Hendrix- and that is exactly what he did.

At a time when Cream was at the top of the food chain, they were untouchable.…

British East India Company soldier and explorer

There may have been minor settlement of Chinese people in Kenya as early as the 15th century; however, modern migration from the People's Republic of China to Kenya only dates to the late 1990s and early 2000s. There are estimated to be anywhere between 3…

2008 thriller drama movie on the attempted Stauffenberg coup against Hitler directed by Bryan Singer

Twenty-five years ago, a group of Australian animators finally got to make an environmentally focused kids flick that had been in gestation for a long time. That movie was Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, a movie known for its lush setting and the inclusion…

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The village of Asola-Fatehpur Beri is the strongest in India.

All Michael Jordan wanted to wear was adidas in the NBA. Although he wore Converse at North Carolina, because his coach Dean Smith was getting paid about $10,000 a year to put the brand on his players, the German make was his dream.

Mount Everest (Nepali: Sagarmatha सगरमाथा; Tibetan: Chomolungma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ; Chinese: Zhumulangma 珠穆朗玛) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between Nepal (Province…

The French government is not messing around.

The Fighting Whites (alternatively identified as Fightin' Whites, Fighting Whities, or Fightin' Whities) were an intramural basketball team formed at the University of Northern Colorado in 2002 and named in response to the Native American mascot controversy.

property of a letter in bicameral alphabets (most notably the Latin one); piece of information whether a letter is taller "upper case" or lower "lower case"

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The Louvre is the most visited art museum in the world. CNN takes a closer look at one of the most important cultural institutions of our time.