High beams, lower battery, on, off, play, pause, risk of electric shock and fragile: handle with care — what do these have in common? Most of the symbols you see on appliances, automobiles and other gadgets made since the mid-1970s can be traced back to a…

English video game designer and game programmer

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After astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson criticized an incorrect star field in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," the director tweaked the scene for the film's upcoming re-release.

The "clinking" of glasses originated in the medieval days when wine was often spiked with poison as the sediment concealed it quite well. If a host wanted to prove that the wine wasn't poisoned, he would pour part of the guest's wine into his glass and drink…

Turns out the Red Delicious apple used to be...well...delicious. Here's what went wrong.

Ernest Grady Shore (March 24, 1891 – September 24, 1980) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox during some of their best years in the 1910s.

Measles is much more serious than a rash and fever: it also causes immune amnesia and leaves patients especially vulnerable to secondary infection.

Operation Vengeance was the American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet…

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1975 British comedy film

ritual act of placing a dead person into the ground

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Guitarist also revealed during 'Wayne's World Reunited Apart – PARTY TIME!' that the singer saw it before he died

British club dedicated to the exploration of West Africa

Usually airline passengers side with flight attendants when it comes to safety, but in the case of a US Airways flight Wednesday night, passengers rallied around a blind man and his guide dog and disembarked en masse.

During elections in Mexico, the "ley seca" is enforced. Find out what the ley seca is and how it will effect you during your time in Mexico.

When you get along with someone right off the bat, your brains may literally be on the same wavelength.