Thelma Schoonmaker, on the eve of receiving a Bafta fellowship, discusses the art of film editing and her 50-year career

"Count" Victor Lustig once sold the Eiffel Tower to an unsuspecting scrap-metal dealer. Then he started thinking really big

Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive and unusual suite of heritable traits not seen in their wild progenitors. ...

German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)

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Nearly a decade before he made 'A Christmas Story,' Bob Clark turned a horror movie about an unsuspecting group of sorority sisters and a mysterious killer lurking in their attic into a different kind of holiday classic.

At the Tribeca Film Festival 25th anniversary screening of 'Reservoir Dogs,' Tarantino and star Michael Madsen recalled the film's torture scene

Andrew Hebda, a zoologist at the Nova Scotia Museum, says it's most likely that Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and the rest of the team pulling Santa's sleigh are all female.

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American law enforcement officer and first director of the FBI (1895-1972)

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Despite their reputation for being loaded with vitamin C, the 69.7 mg that a medium orange provides is actually less than many other common fruits and veggies. To pack the ultimate vitamin C punch, fill up on these 12 superfoods.

RARE Marlon Brando Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 05/11/1968
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The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French…

Acorns are a favourite dish of many woodland creatures, but did you know humans can eat them too? Here are some great recipes and more acorn facts.

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Women are more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’. That can be lethal: diagnostic errors cause 40,000-80,000 deaths in the US alone.