"God Only Knows" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a Baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and complexity, its unusual instrumentation…

Howler monkeys can be well-endowed in the voice box or the family jewels, but not both.

Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War (1843–1926)

In the 1960s chemists created artificial turf. But are synthetic fields better than natural grass?

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We set a record-making fuel economy lap around the famous Nürburgring circuit in a Toyota Prius Plug-in which returned impressive MPG.

Nature - Estimates of global total biomass (the mass of all living things) and anthopogenic mass (the mass embedded in inanimate objects made by humans) over time show that we are roughly at the...

USS Chopper (SS/AGSS/IXSS-342), was a Balao-class submarine, of the United States Navy. It was their only ship to be named for the chopper, a common name for Pomatomus saltatrix, an aggressive game fish. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company…

The cockroach parenting method—which includes feeding, guarding, and keeping their young very close—has served the insects for at least 125 million years.

A song written by Roger Taylor after Freddie Mercury told him his others weren't good enough, Radio Ga Ga became a hit single and an iconic Queen classic

Apply for and manage the VA benefits and services you’ve earned as a Veteran, Servicemember, or family member—like health care, disability, education, and more.

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The Druze (/ˈdruːz/; Arabic: دَرْزِيٌّ, darzī or Arabic: دُرْزِيٌّ durzī, pl. دُرُوزٌ, durūz), known to adherents as al-Muwaḥḥidūn (Monotheists) or Muwaḥḥidūn (unitarians), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who…

One million employees in Belgium are expected to receive an automatic pay raise of 11.59% on January 1st 2023 due to record inflation in the country, HR services provider SD Worx said on Friday.

Due to the enormous disproportion of forces, the battle is often called ‘the Polish Thermopylae’.

The film Jaws has shaped the way many of us view sharks - but the creatures don't deserve their vicious reputation, writes Mary Colwell.

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A thirteenth salary, or end-of-year bonus, is an extra payment given to employees at the end of December. Although the amount of the payment depends on a number of factors, it usually matches an employee's monthly salary and can be paid in one or more installments…