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New research from around the world suggests that an individual’s favorite music genre is closely linked to h

Ukrainian engineer and soldier

Dean Martin lived virtually his entire life in the entertainment business. He started his career before he'd turned 18, and went on to become ...

Inside epic all-nighter that birthed USA for Africa's charity smash: a history of 'We Are the World,' featuring Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie.

In an example of the lengths to which the “Red Scare” in America is going, Mrs. Thomas J. White of the Indiana Textbook Commission calls for the

Bolivian educator, teacher and mathematician (1930-2010)

Xerxes I (Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 Xšayār̥šā; Greek: Ξέρξης; c. 518 – August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, ruling from 486 to 465 BC. He was the son and successor of Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC)…

A generation of athletes were ineligible to compete due to Apartheid

area in Louisiana with larger than usual clusters of cancer patients

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Dairy-free and vegan foods might seem interchangeable, but the reality is more complicated. This article explains the differences between vegan and dairy-free diets.

On Sunday 14 September 2008, a riot broke out in connection with a football game in Butembo, province of Nord-Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The teams playing were Socozaki and Nyuki System, which are two local clubs whose…

The Club des Hashischins (sometimes also spelled Club des Hashishins or Club des Hachichins, "Club of the Hashish-Eaters") was a Parisian group dedicated to the exploration of drug-induced experiences, notably with hashish. Members included Victor Hugo, Alexandre…

70 years later, the cooking school is majority female for the first time ever. ...

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Florentine poet, writer and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

The Anpo protests, also known as the Anpo struggle (安保闘争, Anpo tōsō) in Japanese, were a series of massive protests throughout Japan from 1959 to 1960, and again in 1970, against the United States–Japan Security Treaty, which is the treaty that allows the…

(n.) an archaic name for the kestrel Last week, a sweary fact about kestrels turned out to be not only HH’s most popular fact of the week, but one of our most popular facts ever. Back in the sixteenth century, kestrels were known as windfuckers and fuckwinds.…

Until the Second World War, fondue was unheard of in most areas of Switzerland. The cheese speciality only became the ‘national dish’ as the result of a marketing campaign run by the Schweizerische Käseunion (Swiss Cheese Union).