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English mathematician, considered the first computer programmer

Carmen Ortiz was being talked about last month as the next Massachusetts governor. Now she's being investigated for threatening the late Aaron Swartz with decades in prison.

People with disabilities will no longer go straight to the front of lines at Disneyland and Walt Disney World after growing abuse of the system, park officials said.

Under the change, visitors with special...

A study from the University of Michigan discovered that those people who are ‘grammar police’ are in fact huge jerks, and their behavior is a result of certain personality traits that they possess.

Peat in Ireland is used for two main purposes – to generate electricity and as a fuel for domestic heating, while there are 3 peat fuelled power plants still operational.

When you have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), certain things can set off your symptoms. Learn about possible triggers and why you develop them.

A new short film, When AIDS Was Funny, unearths never-before-heard audio reaction to the escalating AIDS crisis.

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In Norwegian, Texas is used as slang term.

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STONELEIGH, Warwickshire (Reuters) - McDonald’s (MCD.N) said on Monday it is to convert its British delivery fleet to run on biodiesel made largely from its own recycled cooking oil.

The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed. Historically, they served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. Constructed…

In response to the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, filmmaker Kevin Smith, whose career was launched and propped by the New York-based mogul, is donating all the residuals going forward …

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been involved in Italian politics since the end of World War II. The CIA intervened in the 1948 general election and would go on to provide covert aid until the early 1960s.

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Company will soon begin clinical trials to determine how effective psilocybin is in treating depression.

They were a crucial Soviet asset to winning World War II.

He was nicknamed “The Three Don’t-Knows” because he didn’t know how large his army, treasury, or harem was. He started assigning numbers to his concubines because he couldn’t be bothered to remember their names. He brought his elderly mother along in parades…

See 10 common words and phrases you may be surprised to learn were coined or popularized by U.S. presidents.