fictional character, a comic book superhero created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger

Superman is a superhero who first appeared in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18…

Japanese word for a tree which survived the atom bomb attack on Hiroshima in 1945

‘To my dad, the idea that people would simply throw these away would be bizarre,’ claims Raoul Thulin 

anti-tank weapon used by the Japanese army (WWII)

On the 22nd October 1975, the very same day that the Guildford Four were wrongly convicted of a pub-...

Is there any evidence that the internet and smartphones have shrunk our attention spans?

It could just as easily have been a peach or a fig.

William Stewart Halsted developed a novel residency training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital that, with some modifications, became the model for surgical and medical residency training in North America. While performing anesthesia research early in ...

The meaning, origin and history of the given name Cinderella

Disputation over the Talmud at the court of French King Louis IX (1240)

How Joseph Barbera and William Hanna cut costs and beefed up scripts to bring cartoons to the small screen.

Another Eye Of The Tiger Bites The Dust
In 1970 British rock band Queen formed, and changed the course of music forever. Queen quickly jumped onto the scene with their unique, over-the-top and flamboyant style, and eventually rose to the top of the rock…

German actor (1893-1943)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa]; 14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967) was a Cuban-Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage…

In a 1990s interview, Carlos Hathcock talked about his most famous hunts in Vietnam.

Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living, focusing on both individual and societal well-being. It studies "positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions...it aims to improve quality…