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When Victoria's oldest child, the Princess Victoria , Princess Royal (1840-1901), shed her first baby tooth, it, too, was preserved, ...

First the definition: The Libor scandal is a series of fraudulent actions connected to the Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate) and also ...

American politicians and businessmen give lip service to "infrastructure" improvement, but always defer the funding to their su...

In Alberta, Canada, a bear was observed climbing this electric power transmission tower in order to gain access to the ravens' nest n...

YouTube link . " Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions)...

Via the Data is Beautiful subreddit.

That's the idea behind a new reading challenge being sponsored by our local library , as part of a nationwide program .

There are a lot of things a person could do with 179 million dollars. Via BoingBoing . Addendum:  A New York television station (MyFo...

YouTube link . The water sinks below the burning oil, vaporizes, and then... the slo-mo shows the result.

From a photo gallery at The Guardian .

During the Great Depression in the United States, and again during WWII, many families in the United States coped with shortages by makin...

From the inimitable xkcd .

YouTube link . Why do people shake hands? A new Weizmann Institute study suggests one of the reasons for this ancient custom may be to...