performance held during the Nazi siege of Leningrad in 1942

organized crimes syndicate originating in Sicily

English monarch courtier

Healthy couples constantly make and accept bids to connect.

In the 1970s, the Portsmouth Sinfonia became briefly famous for butchering classical music.

It's been revealed that the music for the 'You Wouldn't Steal A Car' piracy advert was pirated...

Researchers have uncovered important genomic data from the remains of an ancient giant ground sloth. The analysis, they say, proves for the first time that the giant ground sloth—which went extinct approximately 10,000 years ago—is a close relative of the…

Christianity in Africa arrived in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century. By the end of the 2nd century it had reached the region around Carthage. In the 4th century, the Aksumite empire in modern-day Eritrea and Ethiopia became one of the first regions in…

Presented at: Conspiracy ’87, Brighton, England, August 27 – September 1, 1987 Toastmaster: Brian W. Aldiss Base design: Awards Administration: Paul Kincaid Best Novel Speaker for the D…

San Diego police have the late Donald Dean Stenger, methamphetamine czar, to thank for their first-ever helicopter, an $80,000 Bell Ranger to be unveiled today at Montgomery Field.

The history of braille started in the early 1800's and is a system of touch reading for the blind in which raised dots represent letters of the alphabet.

The exploding cigar plot to kill Castro is well known, but what about the other plots on his life?

orientation of the free end of a roll of toilet paper, either over or under the roll, when used with a holder with an axle parallel to both the wall and floor

Remember what happened in the aftermath of "Nipplegate"? It was a little fuzzy for us, too. Here's a refresher.

American serial killer (1946-1989)

We report that the cells in a natural honeybee comb have a circular shape at ‘birth’ but quickly transform into the familiar rounded hexagonal shape, while the comb is being built. The mechanism for this transformation is the flow of molten ...

Air Force fighters and bombers are soaring into the wild blue yonder with new paint jobs, quietly reviving an old tradition.

How one man’s small, secret gifts of charity during the Great Depression kept a world afloat. We look at giving.

American singer, songwriter, musician, satirist, and actor

aircraft that disappeared during WWII, wreckage later found in the Libyan desert