Lieutenant Lawrence J. Franks Jr. was sentenced to four years in prison and dismissed from the Army after he was accused of enlisting in the French Foreign Legion.

SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship that is best known for its inaction during the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, despite being the closest ship in the area. The United States Senate inquiry and British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry…

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There's a rule covering how major league ballparks are supposed to be aligned. Few follow it.

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Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”

Immediately after the detection of the theft, Roambee went into damage control mode and provided the police with the tools needed to track the GPS devices.

Goro Nyudo Masamune established the Soshu tradition of blade making. This page is about Masamune Sword and Blade Workshop, run by Tsunahiro (Masamune XXIV), his descendant, who carries on this prestigious tradition.

For 50 years before the adoption of the 19th Amendment, women in one state had full voting rights, and you might be surprised where.

Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (/ˈtɛnsɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing[citation needed], was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first…

Simon Lembi went missing from his home in Saint-Gilles in Brussels in 1999, aged only 14. Now, 20 years on, he has been found alive and well. His was one of the first faces to appear on a missing pers

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When, in 2000, Japanese pollsters were asked about what they consider their country’s greatest accomplishments of the 20th century, the top choice was the essence of practicality: Instant ramen.

Bryn Gribben   Violet and Daisy Hilton, were Siamese twins joined at the hip and performed in various capacities in vaudeville.  They also infamously had multiple lovers, claiming “not to have…

Walker was hailed as “<a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/walker-wyatt-tee">one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.

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The Haya are an ethnic and linguistic tribe based in the Bukoba District, Muleba District and Karagwe District of Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania, East Africa. In 1991 the Haya population was estimated to number 1,200,000. They speak the Haya language.

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