A handwritten receipt, which represents ownership of empty space imagined by conceptual artist Yves Klein in the 1950s, fetched $1.16 million at a Paris auction.

“I was completely inside (the whale); it was completely black,” said Michael Packard as people compare the New England man to Jonah and the whale.

French military and political leader (1856-1951)

ship with no living people onboard

The hamster may be ubiquitous now, but it was a pioneering scientist who brought the rodent into labs and homes across the world

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. This is about 1.5 pounds a year. By age 70, the average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin in their lifetime.

Report on cultural relations between France and Africa south of the Sahara

Largest and oldest known bald cypress

religious figure who confronted Peter

Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence. According to researchers, having a complete, gap-free sequence of the roughly 3 billion…

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are unusually large, unpredictable and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships, even to large ones.…

WLUP FM 97.9, the fabled classic rock station that’s home to morning host Erich Mancow Muller and four decades of radio history, is being acquired by a non

The right to refuse to answer questions

India is not a largely vegetarian country, and more people consume beef than previously estimated.

The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria…

Today in 1908, the Grand Canyon became a national monument. Here’s how its residents get their mail by mule.

The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves. The Royal Navy immediately established a presence off Africa to enforce the ban, called the West Africa…

The Skatt Bros. (or Skatt Brothers) were a band from Los Angeles, formed in 1979. At first they were compared to bands like the Village People for parallels in music on their first album, but later returned to their more rockish roots with the release of…

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Albert Einstein's connections to New York City are a bit more morbid than you might expect: his eyes are stored in a safety deposit box in the city.

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are unusually large, unpredictable and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships, even to large ones.…