The history of Washington features plenty of mudslinging, fighting and division, and that's without even going inside Congress. Here's how the capital developed from the small, dirty, disorganized

This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. The list covers the name of the event, location and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category. In addition, some of the listed events overlap each other…

deliberate killing or attempted killing by a soldier of a fellow soldier

physiological reaction to a perceived threat or harmful event

Belly buttons are an anatomical wildcard. Whether you have an innie or an outie is mostly up to chance. Learn more about belly buttons and what you can do if you don’t like how yours looks.

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Scientists had assumed elephants could not become inebriated because of their size, writes Mareike Janiak, Faculty of Arts, in Conversation Canada

With a tiger reportedly still roaming free in Tbilisi after severe floods damaged the zoo, here’s some advice on how best to survive a confrontation

Ronald Reagan couldn't have become president without Southern votes, and many of those votes simply wouldn't have been there without the invention of air conditioning. Such innovations and their

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Italy’s most famous poet, Dante Alighieri, is the subject of a legal conference looking into whether he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice after he was sentenced to burn at the stake if he returned to Florence.

Let’s get it out of the way: Yes, puttanesca literally translates to “of, relating to, or characteristic of a prostitute,” to quote the OED. I’ll wait...

American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye and written by David McKenna. The film stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong as two brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements.…

As a documentary that lives up to its title in every way imaginable, Andy Mitchell’s ‘Inside the Mind of a Cat’ is a Netflix original we can only describe as equal parts cuddly as well as captivating. That’s because it follows a handful of actual professional…

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Subterranean termite colony found under two bungalows in 1994 is declared terminated after ‘amazing cooperation’ of homeowners

I’m sure many of you have heard the story of how the skeletons that were used during the climax of the film were real. A lot of people I’ve talked to treat this story as just a rumor, but this is not a rumor, this story of using real human skeletons in the…

The most famous bet in British football paid off yesterday when bookmakers wrote a cheque for almost £10,000 to the family of Chris Kirkland, England's substitute goalkeeper against Greece.