For many, throwing up or vomiting is the most dreaded form of an illness. As unpleasant as it is, your body is trying to do you a favor by making you throw up. It’s still a pretty horrible process bu…

The word dollar is the Anglicized version of the German word thaler (Czech tolar and Dutch word daalder or daler), a shortened version of the word Joachimthalers.

The German mathematician rediscovered a lost planet.

"The Wind Cries Mary" is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix wrote the song as reconciliatory love song for his girlfriend in London Kathy Mary Etchingham. More recent biographical material indicated that some of the lyrics appeared in poetry written…

Chef Eduardo Garcia is thriving four years after a freak accident and a shocking diagnosis. A new documentary will tell his story.

The Baltic Way or the Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom"; Estonian: Balti kett; Latvian: Baltijas ceļš; Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias) was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands…

defunct UK whaling & sealing shipping company

flag of the nation of Malta

Hummingbirds seem to defy gravity. They can fly sideways and upside down, but can they also fly backward?

Like a superhero of the coiffe, Janet Stephens spends her days as a regular hair dresser and her nights recreating the hairstyles of ancient Rome

Jan. 1, 1989, was no ordinary New Year’s Day for Korea.

Beginning that day, any Korean person who wished to travel overseas could do so freely. Before then, only a few special people - such as students enrolled in foreign schools, overseas worke

The Edythe Griffinger Portal is a curated selection of items from the Art and Objects Collection, Archives, and Library of the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI).

In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share illegal information

The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: golus) is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts…

The Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱, Shimabara no ran), also known as the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion (島原･天草の乱, Shimabara-Amakusa no ran) or Shimabara-Amakusa Ikki (島原･天草一揆), was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan…

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1961 film by John Huston

former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece

device used to prevent air from moving from one open space to another