Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice. Some reasons for…

Not everything "Orwellian" in its tone is Orwellian in its origins.

How can one driver get it so wrong? An all too familiar road sign may not make sense, but it is meant to get you thinking.

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 -- July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952.

Italian Roman Catholic saint and founder

This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by developmental neuroscience. Two fundamental questions motivate this review. First, why does risk-taking increase between childhood and adolescence? Second, why ...

It’s still unclear how it gets energy

Now banned under federal, state laws, invasive mammal found near Cloquet could have wreaked havoc in wild

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In 1994, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Los Angeles. This caused a blackout in the region and woke up the city's residents

There are several grounds on which you can make a straight-faced argument that the 1966 animated feature How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is superior to...

The new doc looks back at when Justin Timberlake pulled off a piece of Janet Jackson's costume during the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show, exposing her nipple-ring adorned breast for nine-sixteenths of a second, and she paid the price for years to come.

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A tiny Pacific island state has exploited a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity provided by the world wide web to fund its newly acquired membership of the United Nations. Tuvalu has sold an American firm the rights to use its internet domain address.

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae)…

Not a day has been spent in jail nor a penny paid in compensation for the brutal murder of a 14-year-old boy in Mississippi that helped spark the civil rights movement

Long before Russia subverted American social media, the Nazis did the same in Hollywood.

Pez (English: /pɛz/, German: [peːts]; stylised as PEZ) is the brand name of an Austrian candy and associated manual candy dispensers. The candy is a pressed, dry, straight-edged, curved-corner block 15 mm (.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser…