Canadian lawyer and financier

Your brain might be special.

He pioneered the technology that was the "secret weapon" that won the Battle of Britain - but few outside his home town know who he was.

By the time Bell died, he had moved on to other inventions. But the telephone made a huge mark on American society

Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified or the Washing Away of Wrongs is a Chinese book written by Song Ci in 1247 during the Song Dynasty (960-1276) as a handbook for coroners. The author combined many historical cases of forensic science with his own experiences…

Paragraph 175, which outlawed homosexual acts, remained on the books until 1994.

Dogs had a vital part to play in World War One as the complexes of trenches spread throughout the Western Front. It is estimated that by 1918, Germany had employed 30,000 dogs, Britain, France and Belgian over 20,000 and Italy 3000. America, at first, did…

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Millennials are twice as likely to be sexually inactive compared to GenX'ers

Refreshing, bubbly, and crisp—nothing compares to the first sip of a Coke under the Golden Arches. And we mean nothing.

One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?

Interesting facts about Basque Whalers/Sailors that I learned from Christine Echeverria Bender during a presentation she gave at Jaialdi: The first recorded transaction involving Basque sailors sel…

The 2017 North American eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light—with the help of a few hundred elementary-schoolers

The landscape has the permanent look of winter. Leafless trees jag skywards while a shimmering white dust covers the ground. The streets are deserted; the only sound is the breeze. Welcome to

‘I felt an enormous responsibility on my shoulders to do it right.’

American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan

Yes, you read that right. There is a psychedelic mad honey that you can eat only one teaspoon of. Otherwise, you might be poisoned or die.

The story of Julian Hernandez is one that has been all over the American media, but still there are those who don’t know all of the details. To start from the end, rather than the beginning, an 18-year-old boy, a senior in high school, just wanted to apply…

A 1988 decision about a backyard game has been used to highlight ongoing political inaction around guns after mass shootings.

There are over 300 different languages spoken in the U.S. today; half of those are indigenous languages spoken by Native American tribes

French opera singer