truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City

British survey finds children want newborn babies more than anything else.

Britain's oldest door can be found in Westminster Abbey, in the passage leading to the Chapter House.

Forty years later, hear about the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire directly from the people who were there.

A digital delay line is a discrete element in digital filter theory, which allows a signal to be delayed by a number of samples. If the delay is an integer multiple of samples, digital delay lines are often implemented as circular buffers. This means that…

One of the underlying causes of the French Revolution, the disastrous marriage between Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, has been brought down to size by a meticulous investigation into the royal couple's sexual incompatibility.

criminal organizations existing within the LASD

offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare)

Puerto Rican businesswoman

As anticipated (see EDM, March 13, 16) the Communist Party has won Moldova’s parliamentary elections on April 5, far outdistancing the parties that ran on anti-communist platforms. On paper at least–and every fourth year in real practice–Moldova is a parliamentary…

William Shakespeare - William Shakespeare - Literary criticism: During his own lifetime and shortly afterward, Shakespeare enjoyed fame and considerable critical attention. The English writer Francis Meres, in 1598, declared him to be England’s greatest writer…

actress, celebrity stalker (1944-1977)

series of emotional stages experienced when faced with impending death or death of someone

complication of monochorionic twin pregnancies

I was a bit startled when my friend grabbed a pomegranate from the bowl on the table and threw it so hard at the floor that it broke into a sloppy mess of ruby red fruit—a superstitious ritual she does when the clock ticks past midnight every New Year’s Eve…

It was completely legal and it won them millions. Jon Wertheim reports on how Jerry Selbee and his wife Marge used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games

Ritz crackers are a tried and true snack cracker that has stood the test of time. From its early beginnings to unique marketing, this is the story of Ritz.

To grow up in Maine is to know cold weather.

hill in Berlin, Germany

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.

The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists.