The once high-growth chain is an example of what happens when restaurant systems don’t focus on operator health, says RB’s The Bottom

Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.

Although there are dozens of active Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers in the U.S. Navy's fleet, there's something special about the USS Kidd.

South African ungulates introduced decades ago have expanded exponentially in Chihuahuan Desert

The fight lasted longer than half an hour, left eight coyotes dead and bloodied Casper, with skin and part of his tail torn off, the farmer said.

Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor

system that automatically controls the speed of a motor vehicle

1950 heist by Scottish nationalists

The man's wife had told him that $5 for orange juice was "too expensive" when it was on sale for $2.50 somewhere else.

Operation CHASE (an acronym for "Cut Holes And Sink 'Em") was a United States Department of Defense program for the disposal of unwanted munitions at sea from May 1964 until the early 1970s. Munitions were loaded onto ships to be scuttled once they were at…

The main section of the HMT Bedfordshire wreck site is much larger and better defined than the bow piece. There is little relief beyond sections of I-beams, hull plates, pipes, machinery and bulkheads. The shipwreck's mid-ship and aft section is much larger…

In Spanish it's 'tú' and 'usted,' in French 'tu' and 'vous,' and that's just the start. Why do some languages have both formal and informal 'you's?

Activity in which participants compete to consume large quantities of food

Next up in our Halloween cemetery series: Harry K hits the tomes looking for the missing obelisk of Monument Cemetery. Is it sitting in a gravestone dumping ground at the foot of the Betsy Ross...

German music producer

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, a field hockey tournament was contested for the first time. Six teams entered the tournament: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and France. England won the gold medal, Ireland the silver and Scotland and Wales were awarded…

defunct East German car model series

Flowering plants today include most of the plants humans eat or drink, such as grains, fruits and vegetables, and they build many familiar landscapes such as wetlands, meadows, and forests. From 100 to 50 million years ago, the flowering plants dramatically…

Critical Thickness of Insulation - Critical Radius. The thickness up to which heat flow increases and after which heat flow decreases is termed critical thickness. In the case of cylinders and spheres, it is called the critical radius.

Nineteenth-century urbanization unleashed the nation's anarchic spirits, turning holiday mischief into mayhem