Image © 1001 inventions House of Wisdom Sketch Arabic Version (بيت الحكمة) The heyday of Baghdad was 1,200 years ago when it was the thriving capital of the Muslim civilisation. For about 500 years the city boasted the cream of intellectuals and culture,…

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psychological phenomena when an activity that has been interrupted may be more readily recalled

4,841 airborne and 419 ground generator flares were used for the process

Saturday Night Live appeals to audiences of all ages, but it's been known to invite very young guests onto its prestigious live stage. And it's not just teen

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Venom from honeybees is found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially groundbreaking new Australian research, with hopes the discovery will lead to the development of a treatment for triple-negative breast…

The Alberta Hail Suppression Project has been running since 1996 with the goal of mitigating the amount of hail damage affecting urban property such as homes and vehicles.

A cat in Florida who was presumed dead after being run over appears five days later having somehow escaped its grave.

His name might not mean much to Joe Moviegoer, but among a certain kind of cinephile, Stephen Prince is a legend. Others may know their Kurosawa, but Prince wrote a brilliant deep-dive on the great Japanese director’s films (The Warrior’s Camera:…

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Kiss have had to change their logo to avoid German laws prohibiting the display of symbols resembling Nazi Party designs.

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To catch you up on the history of Dungeons & Dragons, your nerdmates at Geek & Sundry are providing you with this handy-dandy series of stories on the history and impact of the world’s oldest role-playing game! You can read the first part of this series,…

While recording the 1977 album, professionally, the band was on top, but personally, things were falling apart.

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At the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, she baked nearly 600 brownies a day.

Randy the two-year-old rodent is set to become a father to around 400 babies after escaping his enclosure and mating with 100 females.

Maya society concerns the social organization of the Pre-Hispanic Mayas, its political structures and social classes. The Maya people were Indigenous to Mexico and Central America and the most dominant people groups of Central America up until the 6th century.…

The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided…