On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices". It was then publicized domestically as Women's…

American actor and comedian

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah (/ˈwɑːrə/ WAH-rə or /ˈwɑːrɑː/ WAH-rah) and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.…

1910s 200 mm mortar of British origin

Russian Internet meme

Liam Neeson has revealed that his late wife Natasha Richardson is 'keeping three people alive' after donating her organs following her shock death.

'We were literally doing fake coke for, like, seven months, every day' 

In December 1777, the Moroccan Sultan Muhammad III included the United States in a list of countries to which Morocco’s ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose head of state publicly recognized the newly independent United States.[failed…

American actor

Sean Bell

American writer

Collective name for environmentally devastated WWI battlefields in northeast France

fictional character from The Simpsons franchise

The 1997 Winchester by election was a by-election to the UK House of Commons in the constituency of Winchester, Hampshire. Winchester was initially declared to have been won by Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrat) with a majority of two votes at the general election…

car of the president of the United States

The establishment of Hadrosaurus foulkii park in Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1984.

American psychologist (1920-1996)

Several events are planned at the Eisenhower National Historic Site in Gettysburg,

medical treatment using altered states of consciousness to treat mental disorders

This is a story about Jinjing the South American Magellanic Penguin, that swims 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

The rescued Penguin was saved by João Pereira de Souza, a 73 year old part-time fisherman, who lives in…