psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word to temporarily lose meaning for the listener

Totem poles are, quite literally, family trees. They're massive tree trunks carved with symbols to commemorate family history and special occasions.

What happens in your brain when your imagination runs wild? Cognitive scientist Jim Davies explains the science behind this extraordinary mental power.

Alan Lomax (/ˈloʊmæks/; January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar…

On October 12, 1915, World War I nurse Edith Cavell faced a firing squad after she was caught funneling some 200 Allied troops out of German-occupied Belgium.

With a new purchase order, the F-35 reaches its lowest cost yet.

British Army officer

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as…

The announcerless game was an American football contest played on December 20, 1980, between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. As an experiment, the NBC television network broadcast it without assigning any commentators…

According to Viking religious belief, when you die, you go to Valhalla and get an endless supply of beer. But the only catch is how you go about getting it.

The stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany are a megalithic tradition of monuments consisting of standing stones arranged in rings. These were constructed from 3300 to 900 BCE in Britain, Ireland and Brittany. It has been estimated that around 4…

Rabbit starvation is a condition in which a person becomes severely malnourished after eating primarily protein and not having...

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English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian

The minefields laid in the Falkland Islands 35 years ago have been a blessing for penguins, which are not big enough to trigger explosions. But now the time has come for their home to be demined.

Ever since its beginnings, AA has struggled with the issue of God and a Higher Power. Bill Wilson, the iconic AA founder (and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century) was himself an agnostic and an atheist at various points…

Many lizards can break off their tails when they’re in danger. Many spiders can do the same to their legs. This is called autotomy. The body parts have in-built lines of weakness that can easily tear, and the wounds tend to rapidly close and heal. Usually…

A mountain in Australia was named ‘Mt. Disappointment’ in 1824 by two explorers, as they were making their ascent to its summit. Hamilton Hume and William Hovell hoped to get a view of the Port Phillip Bay from the summit but dense tree growth prevented it.…

This just goes to show how amazing Shakespeare was at his craft -- and also that he probably had a dirty mind.