French supercentenarian, oldest human

container used in locomotives to drop sand on the rail to improve traction

Six British soldiers trapped in a flooded Mexican cave

An oral history of The Offspring's breakout album Smash, and how it took U.S. punk into the mainstream…

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It's rare amongst mammals, but for humans and a few whales, losing the ability to reproduce with age might help their children's offspring survive.

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It’s amazing how you can study a foreign language for so long, yet somehow overlook what seem like basic things. The other day I was reading a book about Japan written for elementary school c…

Money transformed the entire idea of the barter system. A medium of exchange for goods and services for centuries, money keeps matters of the world in a flow, helps countries exchange goods and services and develops friendly relationships. Typically, every…

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extinct species of hominid

Gangs operating in the United Kingdom

Easy on the usual violence and gore and with a (very) dark sense of humour running through it, the 'thrill-omedy' Arachnophobia left critics confused, but was

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Transformation is fundamental and arguably inevitable. People of the diaspora know it all too well, both in motion and emotion. The horizontal transgressions across natural and manmade borders create multiple cognitive shifts that can only be organized as…

If you want to find a safe neighborhood to live in, choose one where the residents trust each other – and have a lot of dogs to walk.In a study conducted in Columbus, researchers found that neighborhoods with more dogs had lower rates of homicide, robbery…

Latin adage translated as, "If you want peace, prepare for war"

The world's first flight attendant was Heinrich Kubis, who began serving passengers of the German zeppelin airline DELAG in 1912.

One is the human and the other, says a new study, is the tree shrew.