The origins of the phrase “Siamese Twins,” Chang and Eng Bunker were conjoined twins who operated a plantation in North Carolina during the Civil War.  Born...

The jury is out on seaweeds; some people probably hear the word and think about sushi, some think about beautiful underwater seaweed forests floating up toward the sun, gently swaying with the curren…

Techno Mart refers to either of two different shopping malls in Seoul, South Korea. The Gangbyeon branch, located in Gwangjin District, contains an estimated 2000 electronics and appliances stores. The Sindorim branch is located in Guro District.

Austrian engineer and CEO of firearms manufacturer Glock

We must pierce the smoke-screen of creditors and re-establish the historical truth. Repeated and generalised debt cancellation has occurred throughout…

The dawn of the White House’s digital age began with President Jimmy Carter, according...

The average height of Chinese men increased by nearly 9 centimeters over 35 years between 1985 and 2019. This has become a trending topic on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Wednesday, with over 104,000 likes.

The repeated violations of a weed-themed company are just the tip of the iceberg in maddening city to get around

The plants can absorb gold particles in their roots and transport them up to their leaves--a finding that could be a boon for mining companies

Romanian who attempted to enter Canada illegally

Once the United States entered World War II, the battles fought in the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast changed the way of life for those that called the Outer Banks home.

Austrian mathematician

Nims Purja climbed the 14 mountains above 8,000 meters—Everest, K2, and a dozen more—in just six months and six days. In the process, he reached new frontiers of human possibility.

A film by sculptor Joanna Malinowska, showing virtually at the Hirshhorn Museum through Nov. 30, investigates the unusual, unexpected and sometimes bizarre ways in which people interpret their histories and construct identities.

Botox is commonly injected to mitigate wrinkles, migraines and muscle spasms, but it may have an ability to treat depression, a new study finds.

area of predominantly coniferous woodland just south of Farnham, Surrey, England

When salvage crews raised the battleship West Virginia six months after the Pearl Harbor attacks, they found the bodies of three sailors huddled in an airtight storeroom — and a calendar on which 16 days had been crossed off in...

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The Emirate of Crete (Arabic: إقريطش, romanized: Iqrīṭish or إقريطية, Iqrīṭiya; Greek: Κρήτη, romanized: Krētē) was an Islamic state that existed on the Mediterranean island of Crete from the late 820s to the reconquest of the island by the Byzantine Empire…