Tipping is more American than baseball. Yet "tip creep" is undermining not just the Service Industry. It is a pernicious, economic drain on American society fostering selfishness and negating corporate responsibility. Is tipping mandatory? In america you…

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The actor who played Buzz in comedy classic Home Alone finally confesses about his character's real girlfriend in Home Alone.

The Oakland Buddha is a statue of Buddha placed in a median in Oakland, California. The statue was placed by neighborhood resident Dan Stevenson who was upset about the frequent use of the median for illegal dumping. Stevenson attached the statue to the median…

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest geniuses of the Italian Renaissance, designed and constructed a mechanical knight way back in 1495. According to historical sources, this mechanical knight was capable of humanistic movements. Leonardo da Vinci — Genius…

As the daughter of Winston Churchill, my mother had a rare insight into the war years, now revealed in her memoir.

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On Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, Fast and Furious star Paul Walker died in a fiery Porsche Carrera GT crash with his friend, Roger Rodas, who was driving. It was sudden and heartbreaking, a death that was especially felt in the car community. Five years later…

A group of inmates at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility defeated the prestigious Harvard debate team as part of the Bard Prison Initiative.

In a breakthrough that will appeal to both spies and those who work with priceless but frail historical documents, researchers at MIT have developed a camera that uses terahertz radiation to peer at the text on pages of a book, without it having to be open.

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The Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander that was transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission. It was an astrobiology mission that would have looked for past life on the shallow surface of Mars.

Australia/NZ News -SYDNEY (WASHINGTON POST) - In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Thelma Pearl Howard’s name may not immediately ring a bell – even with those who possess in-depth knowledge of Walt Disney. But the housekeeper was actually a key figure in the great animator’s life. And although Howard had originally come from poverty and…

The luck changed for Billy Ray Harris one day last month when the usual tinkling of coins being dropped into his beggar’s cup on a plaza in Kansas City was punctuated by a slightly heavier clunk. A

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Has Brian Banks' dream of an NFL career been delayed or even destroyed by a false charge of rape and five years in prison?