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This is a map and list of European countries by GDP per capita at purchasing power parity

American politician (1752-1816)

France on Monday launched a national campaign to encourage the wine-loving French to cut down on their drinking after a study showed that a quarter of them over-consume. But many still feel that “a nice…

To begin with, Earth is rotating on its axis at the familiar rate of one revolution per day. For those of us living at Earth's midlatitudes -- including the United States, Europe, and Japan -- the rate is almost a thousand miles an hour. The rate is higher…

as we know, no fatal cases have been described before. We present the death of an adult male secondary to the complications due to penile strangulation with a plastic bottle neck. The time of incarceration was unknown, but according to a witness it could…

Mexican custom

'We just love music, we love dancing, and doing this is better than night clubbing or drinking in a bar in the city.'

Witch's supposed ritual greeting upon meeting with the Devil

Today, cheap and accurate mechanical pipettes are used by clinical pathology laboratories, although mouth pipetting, a dangerous medical lab practice, is still used in developing nations Mouth pipetting was the topic of a recent blog published by Body Horrors.…

A resource to help federal employees comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)

An 88-year-old Frenchman caused a panic after arriving at a hospital with a World War One artillery shell lodged in his rectum.

type of whip

In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.

How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish.

He survived the events on November 18, 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana by sleeping through the entire event. He and Hyacinth Thrash were the only two survivors who slept through the whole tragedy. He was 79 years old at the time of the event.

On October 12, 1945, US Army medic Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

Silent Hill series creators: information, biographies, articles and interviews