character in Australian road safety campaign

The Siege of the International Legations was a pivotal event during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, in which foreign diplomatic compounds in Peking were besieged by Chinese Boxers and Qing Dynasty troops. The Boxers, fueled by anti-foreign and anti-Christian…

public holiday in Norway on May 17: celebration of the Constitution of 1814

territorial, political, and economic objectives in the First World War

Pornography (colloquially called porn, porno, and XXX, pronounced "triple X") is sexually suggestive material, such as a picture, video, text, or audio, intended for sexual arousal.[a] Made for consumption by adults, pornographic depictions have evolved from…

classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)

female given name

Dog ownership in infancy may prevent food allergy.

Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, romanized: Nikēphóros Phōkâs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969. His career, not uniformly successful in matters of statecraft or of war, nonetheless…

Australian mountain climber

Remains of the "Scattered Man John Doe" began washing ashore in New Jersey in 1995 and went unidentified for the next three decades. Students at Ramapo College set about to solve the mystery.

Arabic-based alphabet for Belarusian

Fermented camel milk, named shubat in Central Asia, is historically and culturally important because it is mainly consumed by Kazakh people who live not only in Kazakhstan but also in close neighboring countries. However, despite its cultural and ...

species of algae

aerial carousel-style ride located in Fantasyland

Navinder Sarao, who had traded from a bedroom in his parents’ west London home, briefly caused havoc on Wall Street in 2010

1973 plane crash of a Varig Boeing 707 in Saulx-les-Chartreux, France

genus of plants

Can you tell the facts from the fiction of the Revolutionary War?