The Orange Years chronicles the rise of the Nickelodeon network, featuring interviews with the actors, writers, and creators from all the golden age Nickelodeon shows that shaped your lives. It’s wild. It’s crazy. It changed the world.

The wolf’s effective hunt of large prey and striking, soulful appearance have attracted both haters and lovers of this wild predator.
Wolves were so despised that the U.S. government established a bounty program that helped to eliminate all but a few hundred…

ancient Greek military unit

Austrian woman held captive for eight years

The suffix -stan (Persian: ـستان‎, romanized: stân after a vowel; estân or istân after a consonant) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" or "a place where anything abounds" in Persian language. It appears in the names of many regions in Iran, Afghanistan…

Katie Bouman, 29, has earned plaudits for helping develop the algorithm that made the photo possible.

Alex Hern: Manipulating users' emotions is not the act of a socially responsible company, and we should not tolerate it

American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)

Personal possessions of the mathematician and computer science pioneer go on display at Bletchley Park museum

Dina Sanichar (1866-1894) was a feral child. Sanichar was discovered by a group of hunters among wolves in a cave in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India in February 1867, at the age of around 6 Sanichar was taken to Sikandra Mission Orphanage where he was given…

Find out why Jake from State Farm looks different these days.

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Wataru "Wat" Misaka (December 21, 1923 – November 20, 2019) was an American professional basketball player. A 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) point guard of Japanese descent, he broke the color barrier in professional basketball by being the first non-white player…

In the Russian communicative consciousness, there is a rule: the smile must be a genuine reflection of a good mood and a good relationship.

As you stare at the grocery aisle of jellies, jams, and conserves, do you know what defines one jar from another? Let's get into the nitty-gritty.

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The Major League Baseball schedule hasn't always been as easy as imputing information into a...

President of Zaïre (1930-1997)

"Return to Sender" is song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and performed in the film Girls! Girls! Girls!. The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell to suit Presley's rock and roll musical style, in which the singer laments his relationship…