Before The Wizard of Oz, witches were usually red or orange. Linda Rodriguez McRobbie explains why.

Star Wars, which gave birth to one of the biggest film franchises of all time, sprang up from the mind of 33-year-old writer-filmmaker George Lucas, who celebrates his 77th birthday today.

"Piano Man" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel. His first single in North America, it was included on Joel's 1973 album of the same name and later released as a single on November 2, 1973. The song is sung from Joel's…

LIAM NEESON has carved out quite a niche as action star over the past decade thanks to the success of the Taken trilogy and glut of copycat movies. Prior to that, the Ballymena-born actor was better known for starring in a string of critically-acclaimed historical…

In the United States and Canada, a bereavement flight is a flight purchased when a close relative has died or is dying. Bereavement fares used to be offered by many airlines, but as of 2015, most have stopped providing them.

Grateful Dead fans looking for missing Buffalo concert tape.

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The list of names and amounts of the top five countries that hold U.S. debt and why.

"Danger Zone" is a song, with music composed by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics written by Tom Whitlock, which American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins recorded and released in 1986. The song was one of the hit singles from the soundtrack to the 1986 American…

Four thick ledgers pertaining to the Ripper case remain classified. Why?

Research, both controlled and anecdotal, suggests that most people would say that the same beer tastes better when it’s in a bottle versus when it’s in a can. Last year, a study in the journal Beverages aimed to answer this question once and for all, which…

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In 2014, Suncoast Humane Society initiated a “No Birth” campaign. This campaign is aimed at aggressively promoting spay/neuter as the key to reducing euthanasia in open admission shelters such as ours. We know spay/neuter prevents animals from being born…

American doctor and NASA astronaut

Les pressions sélectives qui ont mené à l’apparition de l’appendice du cæcum, les relations entre cet appendice et le cæcum, ainsi que les liens entre…

In his new book, Tony Bennett reveals he met his wife's parents at a show in 1966

It all goes back to a quirky BBC subcommittee working in the 1930s to change the English language

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