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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Hi. I sometimes like a nice warm bath in the winter.  After a while, the bath gets colder.  I know there are a few ways that the bath can lose heat, but does a thick layer of bubbles on the top make

After a sleepless night, Hahn took the card, placed it inside a pink change purse and attached a typewritten note. The two men's lives collided sometime after midnight on Feb. 28, 2005, in the darkness of a messy studio apartment. Both the responding police…

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The opossum is many things, but did you know that it was a voracious tick eater?

The High Court of Justice was the court established by the Rump Parliament to try King Charles I of England. This was an ad hoc tribunal created specifically for the purpose of trying the king, although the name was used for subsequent courts.

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Why a restaurant that's closed on Sundays makes more per restaurant than any other fast food restaurant in the country.

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A reef in Hawaii's Kāne’ohe Bay bounced back despite development, dredging, sewage and rising water temperatures, leading scientists to dub it a supercoral.

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