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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.

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

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE (/ˈɡʊdɔːl/; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is…

Life after almost certain death.

Christopher Nolan is a writer, director, and producer, but did you know he's also a corn farmer? Yep, he sure is, and Interstellar is the reason for it.

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, (born 25 April 1989, in Lhari County, Tibet) is the 11th Panchen Lama belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, as recognized and announced by the 14th Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. Three days later on 17 May, the 6-year-old…

Max Burgers Aktiebolag (Max Burgers Incorporated), earlier Max Hamburgerrestauranger AB, is a fast food corporation from Sweden.