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:…

Second wife of Joseph Stalin

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

SS officer

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.

Canadian-American pharmacologist

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…

Chinese tradition to give post-partum rest to the mother

Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons in October 1943 famously described the unique and ancient friendship between England and Portugal as an alliance “without parallel in world history”.[1] It is 630 years since a treaty of …

independent restaurant in Mattoon, Illinois

Blows on behalf of fair labor treatment don't always have to come from factory workers.

Sure, you loved those old games—but did you know Microsoft was really tricking you into learning how to use their system?

Austin Rogers is a 12-time "Jeopardy!" champion who has won more than $400,000 dollars on the game show.

American fast food giants such as McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and fast casual chains including Chipotle and Five Guys have made their way across the pond to conquer Europeans over the years. But what about Wendy's?

resident cat at the Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa, US