Month: August 2013

Shortly after World War II, the US and Guatemala conducted a secret study on the effects of penicillin on various ...

In the 1800s and 1900s, before radio or reliable clocks, the only official clock in England was located at the ...

The US Air Force has combined over 1,700 PlayStation 3 consoles to create a 500 TFLOPS Supercomputer---the 33rd largest in ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police felt homosexuals were a national security danger and used a ...

Up until the late 1800s, passenger pigeons traveled across America in billion-strong swarms hundreds of miles long. There were so ...

Human beings are not the only creatures in this world to drink up, sometimes spectacularly. Fruit-eating birds, namely cedar waxwings ...

From 1945 to 1955, Swedish researchers subjected uninformed patients of Vipeholm Mental Hospital to a series of tests to determine ...

Some libraries are starting to convert to all-digital, using space once filled by books for e-readers and computers. A new ...

The Pledge of Allegiance is a cornerstone of modern America, recited by children across the country and revered by the ...

Between 1904 and 1907, the German army conspired to commit genocide against the Herero and Nama people of present-day Namibia, ...

Honeybee colonies have been dwindling in number for years, and nobody's sure why. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, failure to ...

Absinthe, the famed green fairy, was once banned for causing hallucinations, convulsions, and tremors. This wasn't actually because of some ...

Joseph Bolitho Johns, or Moondyne Joe, was born in Wales sometime around 1820. After committing petty theft, he was sent ...

During the 1950s, Borneo was overrun with rats, an unintended consequence of huge DDT sprays that aimed to kill malaria-spreading ...

Parrots are known for being brightly colored, often cheerful, fruit and nut eaters. However, there are always exceptions in the ...

There are certain isotopes that didn't exist at all in the natural environment, or appeared in lesser proportions, before detonation ...

Hemp and marijuana both come from the same species of plant---cannabis. However, hemp is generally harvested from a subspecies of ...

In Palermo, Sicily, there is a place that is every bit as spooky as it is fascinating: the Capuchin Catacombs, ...

Vastly wealth parents have found a loophole to jump to the front of the line in Disney World's rides by ...

On October 24, 1944 one of the most successful, destructive submarines of World War II fired the last torpedo it ...

In 1914, celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s grand estate, Taliesin, was burnt to the ground by a servant named Julian ...