“Fallen Astronaut” honors those who died in the Space Race, with a few notable omissions.

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(1861-1922) United States Navy officer and 12th Naval Governor of American Samoa

Spanish artist (1904-1989)

The National Raisin Reserve was a raisin reserve of the United States. It was created after World War II by the government in order to control raisin prices. The reserve was run by the Raisin Administrative Committee. It was enforced by means of a "marketing…

Bluey (7 June 1910 – 14 November 1939) was an Australian cattle dog owned by Les and Esma Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia. According to Guinness World Records, Bluey lived 29 years, 5 months and is the oldest dog ever verified. Two owners have made…

Jean-Luc Picard's age will break new ground in the franchise.

Thurman told The New York Times that Quentin Tarantino coerced her into driving the car, even though she was worried it might be unsafe.

To protect themselves from unwanted advances, city women protected themselves with some sharp accessories

Holocaust survivor, author

steel produced prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs in the 1940s and 1950s, and so not contaminated with radionuclides

English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination

The History Reader is a blog for history lovers and readers of history books

Li Lianjie (courtesy name Yangzhong; born 26 April 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese film actor, film producer, martial artist, and retired Wushu champion who was born in Beijing. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen.

We usually think of woolly mammoths as purely Ice Age creatures. But while most did indeed die out 10,000 years ago, one tiny population endured on isolated Wrangel Island until 1650 BCE. So why did they finally go extinct?

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help·info), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (English: /ˈnɑːtsi, ˈnætsi/), was a far-right political party in Germany…

Jacob French raised more than $100,000 for the Starlight Children's Foundation after walking from Perth to Sydney — in a stormtrooper uniform.

politician and priest from Greece

United States Air Force officer

Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (UK: /xɒˈmeɪni/ khom-AY-nee, US: /xoʊˈ-/ khohm-; Persian: سید روح‌الله موسوی خمینی‎ [ruːholˈlɑːhe xomejˈniː] (listen); 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian…

building material used in construction during the late Roman Republic