Remembering legendary opera singer/umpire Enrico Pallazzo

The vine staff, vine-staff, or centurion's staff (Latin: vitis) was a vinewood rod of about 3 feet (1 m) in length used in the ancient Roman Army and Navy. It was the mark and tool of the centurion: both as an implement in the direction of drill and maneuvers;…

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Gender fluidity, pop art and diversity on the catwalk were hallmarks of the works and shows of the late French designer who would have turned 85 on August 1.

Ahead of National Hot Dog Day, the Pittsburgh-based condiment maker Heinz challenges \

Largest and oldest known bald cypress

Over thirty years ago, Tim Burton reinvented Batman. He banished all references to the camp, cult '60s TV show which had defined the Caped Crusader with cheesy one-liners, costumes that looked like pajamas, and rubber

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If it's been a while since you tasted this cruciferous veggie, you might want to give them another chance.

Halloween may not be until the 31st October, but residents of this Scottish town will be celebrating today.

The movie actress Clara Blandick died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more! Biography - A Short Wiki20th century film actress who became imortalized as Auntie Em in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. She was married to mining engineer…

The folklore of Stingy Jack and origins of the Jack o' Lantern

The first edition of the Guinness Book of World Records was released in 1955, and people have used its collection of factoids to settle bets ever since.

Institutional corruption in the country

Forbes takes stock of Microsoft and asks what the behemoth is gonna do about some of its woes.
The biggest problem facing Microsoft is its size.

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The Inuits in the region call them “American Flowers,” but in reality they’re old, rusted, leaking fuel containers; ten thousand of them scattered across the otherwise-pristine Greenland landscape on what used to be an Air Force base during World War II.

In 1976, John Aristotle Phillips was an underachieving student at Princeton. In order to improve his grades, he wrote a term paper on nuclear proliferation. The report included designs for an atomic bomb similar to the one dropped on Nagasaki. He used publicly…