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.

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What if all the Large Hadron Collider's recent woes are more than bad luck and technical problems? Two noted physicists speculate that the future may be pushing back on the LHC to avert the disaster of observing the Higgs boson.

Demand and supply are the driving forces behind any consumer-based/market economy. The significance of generating demand and supply is paramount to understanding the metrics of

(first posted 5/11/2011)    Necessity really is the mother of all invention. And the history of this peculiar kind of truck was born during wartime shortage. In Sweden before and during the second …

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In 1994, 60 children at a Zimbabwe school said they'd seen a "UFO" - a BBC crew was first on the scene.

Between 1492 and 1504, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus led four Spanish transatlantic maritime expeditions of discovery to the Americas. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World. This breakthrough inaugurated the period known as…

A brief history of the croissant – from kipfel to Cronut

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. That's the story of former NBA champion Bison Dele who was murdered at sea by his own brother then dumped in shark-infested waters.

2006 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

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