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Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. The film…

Greg Jenner and his guests explore the culinary and cultural history of chocolate.

Dear Alice,As Japan sweats through this summer of inadequate power, many more people now know that there are different electrical supply systems in eastern

Picture this: A bunch of unique looking headbanging people listening to heavy music; entering a whirlpool of human collision in front of their favorite artist;

From 1978: The staff and students at a Florida elementary school thought that they’d been poisoned. Were they right?

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Was the orange named because it was the color orange, or did the color get its name because of the fruit? Time to take a little language history lesson.

massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company

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The 11th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1809 to March…

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…

tribe of animals of the family Cricetidae

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LABOR - Ancient Greece and Rome: An Encyclopedia for Students (4 Volume Set) - Textbook - School - University - by Carroll Moulton

Of course, the average American home today is markedly different than the average home in the 1950s and '60s, but you may be surprised to learn just how different they are -- in ways you might not...

Popeye the Sailor is a fictional American cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929, and Popeye became the strip's title in later years. The character…

Sponges are the only animals that if broken down to the level of their cells, can reassemble themselves. A sponge is passed through a sieve to break apart its cells. The cells recognize each other and reform into small new sponges.