Julius Chambers, F.R.G.S., (November 21, 1850 – February 12, 1920) was an American author, editor, journalist, travel writer, and activist against psychiatric abuse.

Her name was Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos. A young black-haired Cuban woman and Tanzler met for the first time in 1930 in the Marine Hospital in Key West, Florida. The young woman’s mother brought her in to see a doctor: at 21, she was dying of tuberculosis.

Decades after it sunk, the battleship Tirpitz is still stunting the environment.

Researchers at the University of Western Australia built a robot fish in 2018 that they used to scare away one of the world's most invasive species, the mosquitofish. 

The former Marlins player played a gangster in “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.”

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The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or simply, the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million…

"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" is a song by British singer John Parr from the 1985 film St. Elmo's Fire. It hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart on 7 September 1985, remaining there for two weeks. It was the main theme for Joel Schumacher's film, and…

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The ancient Greeks, and people for almost 2,000 years after them, argued over whether one was a number

Before every stage of the Tour de France, a crew of workers drive along the route in their van, painting over any phallic imagery on the roads or walls.

A treasure lost to time: Looters destroyed America's largest collection of Native American relics. Now, many have been reunited in a new museum exhibit.

Mary Louvestre (or Touvestre) was an African-American Union spy in Norfolk, Virginia during the US Civil War. Mary delivered details of plans for the conversion of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSS Virginia and which represented…

Lal Bahadur Shastri (pronounced [lɑːl bəˈhɑːd̪ʊɾ ˈʃɑːst̪ɾi] (listen); 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian statesman who served as the second prime minister of India. He promoted the White Revolution – a national campaign to increase the production…

Lately, over 187,000 tonnes of gold has been mined, most of which still exists today. Learn how much gold has become jewellery and the future of gold mining.