On 25th of May 1935 the 21-year-old Owens averaged a world record every nine minutes at the Big Ten Championships. Five world leading marks and one world equalling effort, all completed with an injury severe enough for his coach to seriously consider pulling…

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From the female Paul Revere and a Hollywood starlet-turned-inventor to a political pioneer and the first female sports star, explore the legacies of these daring women.

Funnel-web spiders, the most notorious members of our spider fauna, are found in eastern Australia.

On the field, Lawrence Taylor destroyed players with ease. Off the field, his addictions curtailed his career and nearly destroyed him.

Form of dating how long ago mineral grains had been last exposed to sunlight or heating

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Alan C Logan's new book presents evidence that the story of Frank Abagnale, subject of the Steven Spielberg film Catch Me if You Can, is a pack of lies.

It may be little more than grains of weathered rock, and can be found on deserts and beaches around the world, but sand is also the world’s second most consumed natural resource.

Spanish Benedictine monk, first educator of the deaf

Walnut, who is rumored to have killed two avian suitors who tried to mate with her in the past, has fallen in love with her Smithsonian zookeeper

Highlights from the funky singer's posthumous autobiography, featuring Jim Morrison, Prince and Neil Young

During World War II, a mathematician pointed out his observation, the survivorship bias, that saved tons of resources and lives.

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A long way from their native environment of Africa, these free-roaming zebras seem to like the grass in Maryland just fine

A man is savaged so badly by two donkeys that it was initially believed he had been attacked by a pack of wolves.

Despite Newton’s general brilliance and his expertise in finance, groupthink led him to plunge into the South Sea Bubble and lose much of his fortune.

The New-York Historical Society's newest exhibit delves into the history of the city's once-turbulent ink scene

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