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In a breakthrough that will appeal to both spies and those who work with priceless but frail historical documents, researchers at MIT have developed a camera that uses terahertz radiation to peer at the text on pages of a book, without it having to be open.

1977 film by Ernie Fosselius

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

Psychological manipulation via being made to question one's own judgement

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

period in Chinese history

Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality; it eats away at your ability to trust yourself and inevi…

Qian Xuesen, or Hsue-Shen Tsien (Chinese: 钱学森; 11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a Chinese mathematician, cyberneticist, aerospace engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the field of aerodynamics and established engineering cybernetics.…

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fugitive slaves and slavery abolitionists, from Macon, Georgia

American civil war spy

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