Dice, small objects (polyhedrons) used as implements for gambling and the playing of social games. The most common form of die is the cube, with each side marked with from one to six small dots (spots). The spots are arranged in conventional patterns and…

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In Finland, all new PhD holders are given a traditional Doctoral Sword and Doctoral Hat during a Conferment Ceremony, symbolising the freedom of research.

Local councillors ruled the bear out of the running for patron of the play area

The Battle of Cannae (/ˈkæni, -eɪ, -aɪ/) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and their allies, led…

Margaret Dickson was an Edinburgh woman who survived being hanged in 1721, for the crime of concealing a pregnancy in the case of a dead child.

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Find out how you may be able to rent the Hubble before it might be decommissioned. Learn how the telescope may die and how they may take it out of service or..

NI6, the UK's CIA, switched a bomb recipe on an Al Queda website with a top-secret recipe for one of Ellen Degeneres' favorite cupcakes.

Did Daft Punk punk everyone who watched the 2014 Grammys, thinking we were too daft to catch them doing so?

banknote of the European currency euro

American actor, rapper, singer, comedian and film, television and record producer

Voters in Washington, D.C., decided this week to do away with the so-called tip credit, a miserable practice that allows employers — mostly restaurants — to pay dirt-cheap wages if workers also receive tips from customers.

American politician (1824-1864)

county in the US that forbids the sale of alcoholic beverages

Hand gestures are part of every culture in the world...most Australians would be familiar with the thumbs up, the peace sign and the bird, just to name a few.

Now an Australian anthropologist has documented a salute that's unique to our vast outback highways.

The Española Giant Tortoise was once considered beyond saving. After decades in decline, just over a dozen were left on the Galapagos island by the 1970s, most of them female.

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United States federal government public work relief program part of the New Deal

A look back on the bizarre 1978 punk show that probably should never have happened.

You may see "good for you assurances" on foods that aren't, well, good for you. Here's what to look out for.