Who doesn’t love Air Jordans? They’re favorites of everyone from basketball players to the fashion conscious. When the shoes first hit the market, though, they had a high-profile naysayer: NBA Commissioner David Stern. Nike released the first design of its…

Recipient of the Victoria Cross

In 1970, a plane got fed up with its pilot so it hatched an audacious plan. First, get rid of the pilot. Second: land. Third: enter history. The result

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King You of Zhou (Chinese: 周幽王; pinyin: Zhōu Yōu Wáng; 795–771 BC) was the twelfth king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty and the last of Western Zhou Dynasty. He reigned from 781 to 771 BC.

ancient type of evaporative cooler

This is a list of countries and other inhabited areas of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2019 revision of World Population Prospects. Figures refer to the de facto population in a country or area as…

Having an unusual preoccupation with suicide

person with whom one shares a special bond

The unique conditions of the sea’s depths have made it possible to discern chisel marks on some of the vessels.

Are remote workers productive? Are employers happy? TSheets surveyed employees and employers to find out about productivity, performance, and perceptions.

It's obvious that oranges are orange, but what came first? Is the fruit named for its color. or is the color named for the fruit?

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has been translated into many languages. Known translations, with the first date of publishing, are:

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Learn about Pythagoreanism, its philosophy, its history, contributions to knowledge, its revival, and core tenants in our detailed article.

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GOTYE’S iconic Somebody That I Used to Know video has just reached one billion views on You Tube.

1977 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas

In 1974, a Clevelander wrote the Browns complaining of the menace posed by the then-fad of throwing paper airplanes, and implicitly threatened litigation. The Browns' response is just about the most awesome thing ever committed to paper.

When a Nebraska church exploded in 1950, no one was injured because every single member of the choir was coincidentally late in arriving for practice that evening.