Henryk Siwiak, a Polish immigrant, died in New York on September 11, 2001. Unlike the thousands who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Tra...

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Nancy Tartaglione meets Danny DeVito and Daniel Brühl, actors who have opted to dub themselves for various projects in foreign markets.

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During the two days of fighting at the Civil War battle of Shiloh (1862) the wounded numbered over 16,000. Many were immobilized in the mud of the rain-soaked fields situated between river and swamp. Their wounds were easily contaminated. And some of these…

Defense Department spends millions on Viagra, Cialis, with most going to retirees.

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Does it matter if children’s books deliver inaccurate science?

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(n.) the opposite of Stockholm syndrome: a situation in which hostage-takers become sympathetic to their hostages On 23 August 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson walked into a branch of the Swedish bank Kreditbanken in Stockholm and attempted to rob it. In the resulting…

Turning around before bedtime has its origin mostly in evolutionary history where cat ancestors were practicing these habits for health or protection. These innate habits remain in their genetic code to this day but if your cat is seeming to be doing it excessively…

Survivor of fall through a thunderstorm cloud

Check out all of Rick Springfield's Star Wars toys including extremely rare Turkish Bootleg Uzay action figures worth thousands of dollars.

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Carl Linnaeus (/lɪˈniːəs, lɪˈneɪəs/; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ fɔn lɪˈneː] (listen)), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial…