Month: January 2014

If prompted to name a "Renaissance man," the first name to come to mind for most of us would likely ...

You might smoke four packs a day, but your nicotine tolerance pales in comparison to the hornworm caterpillar's. This guy ...

Sandy Island has been showing up on maps of the South Pacific since 1876. It's noted on military maps, maps ...

Both Alzheimer's and dementia are associated with a loss of memory, but what's the difference? Alzheimer's refers to a physical ...

While most people can describe colors without a problem, it's a different story when it comes to smells. The Jahai ...

The sun is usually the last thing we think of in relation to damaging storms, since we tend to associate ...

Even though the terms are often used interchangeably, prisons and jails are very different entities. A jail is used for ...

From its first appearance in Europe in 1495, syphilis was a fast-acting disease which devastated the bodies of sufferers and ...

A new take on psychology suggests that the centuries-old practice of an exorcism might have clear and useful psychiatric value ...

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing perhaps the largest maritime ...

During World War II, the Ghost Army was a special unit created by the United States military. This band of ...

During the Cold War, Russia wanted to get at the massive reservoirs of petroleum in the Arctic and Siberia, but ...

While one is obviously naturally formed and the other is a man-made impostor, telling the difference between the two can ...

Until Unforgiven came along in 1992, The Outlaw Josey Wales was widely regarded as Clint Eastwood’s best film as a ...

We've all heard the story about the silly Spanish explorer who searched all of what's now Florida for the Fountain ...

Regardless of whether or not you have committed a crime (or even been charged with one), in most parts of ...

Operation Cornflakes was a mission undertaken by the OSS, as a means to spread propaganda throughout Germany. The envelopes containing ...

During the 1960s, Army scientists were experimenting with a deadly nerve agent known as VX. They ran a series of ...

The Age of Exploration resulted in numerous misconceptions and wild fantasies about the New World being spread as fact throughout ...

H. Tracy Hall is probably not a name you're familiar with, but he came up with one of the most ...

Salamo Arouch was a young Jewish boxer who was sent to Auschwitz after the Nazis invaded Greece. However, his skill ...