military service dog primarily deployed during World War I

Russian Floating Folk Dance. Song and dance group name is "Birch Tree / Beryozka / Березка"

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forest of central Sub-Saharan Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorillas and the western gorillas (both critically endangered), and either four…

Cooking method

American singer-songwriter

The small town of Nacozari occupies a valley nestled in the foothills of the Western Sierra Madre (Sierra Madre Occidental) in the state of Sonora. A hundred years ago this month, a young locomotive driver had to make a desperate decision: save his own life…

The whale flipped onto its side and started spinning in circles while engulfing the divers in shit, creating what one of the divers called a "poonado."

"I kept getting rejected by agents. I think because I was a break dancer at the time," the "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" star said.

Squirrel suited flyers say the bans actually contribute to deadly accidents.

Peter Thompson: East German atheism can be seen as a form of continuing political and regional identification – and a taste of the future

Forty years ago, thanks to an organization founded by four high school friends, human rights beat out the free market—and now we can all pee for free.

Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)

The infinite monkey theorem has been put to work

Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy, also called cross-polarisation (CP), is a nuclear magnetic resonance technique invented by Michael Gibby and Alexander Pines while they were graduate students in the lab of Professor John S. Waugh at the Massachusetts…

Shooting locations and other tidbits.

21st-century kidnappings

Pacific War, major theater of World War II that covered a large portion of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, with engagements occurring as far south as northern Australia and as far north as the Aleutian Islands. Trace the course of the war…

Though he loathed it, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture won him fans the world over and made him a household name.

The quirky fictional world of author, playwright and cartoonist Shel Silverstein also brought us "A Boy Named Sue" and other country classics.

A long-hidden cache of Marilyn Monroe’s private letters and diaries answers many mysteries surrounding her legend. With an exclusive look at this discovery, Sam Kashner digests the revelations about Monroe’s life, loves, and shocking death.