Month: November 2013

In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," debuted to a fairly lukewarm ...

Dolphins and porpoises both belong to the Cetacea order of mammals, but they do belong to different families. In spite ...

Steven Spielberg has done a lot for the past few generations. Without him we’d have no "Schindler’s List," "Indiana Jones" ...

The most treacherous coastline in Australia has claimed over 200 ships. All have been documented and accounted for -- except ...

If you think carrying a rabbit's foot for luck is of questionable taste, necropants are right off the charts. Necropants ...

Huang Tijun, 92, of China, was given some awful news by medical professionals in 1948: The child she was pregnant ...

Africa was not a name given to the continent by its inhabitants, but was instead a name created by the ...

In the mid-1960s, John Lennon gave one of his extracted teeth to his housekeeper. She decided to keep the Beatle ...

Most people had head lice as a kid, but fewer will admit to a pubic lice infestation. The crab louse ...

You'd probably expect elephants, with those giant, floppy ears, to have phenomenal hearing. And you'd be right. But what you ...

At first glance, the Lycurgus Cup looks like just another intricately crafted artifact on display at the British Museum. For ...

Anyone familiar with the sport of baseball knows all about Jackie Robinson, the man who famously broke the color barrier ...

The 1033 Program is a piece of legislation you may not be familiar with, but it has seen military hardware ...

Besides having one queen bee, hives also have multiple virgin queens who will kill each other off in order to ...

Detecting the emotional capacities of a creature that can't communicate in the same language as we do can be a ...

In Cleveland in the 1930s, a serial killer stalked the shantytown of Kingsbury Run, dismembering his victims with surgical precision. ...

The Scottish anthropologist Arthur Keith said “the discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” The ...

The English Bulldog has long been heralded as a symbol of strength and tenacity. Originally bred to do savage battle ...

Emotional and physical pain allow us to learn from our experiences and modify future behavior. Nocireceptors, responsible for the sensation ...

The Tokai earthquake is an event that devastates East Japan around every 110 years. There’s an 87 percent chance another ...

Ben "The Tall Texan" Kilpatrick was an infamous outlaw who made his living robbing trains. When he held up the ...