What’s the Safest Seat on an Airplane?
Ah hurtling through the air in a device made of several million parts in a portion of the Earth where the temperature generally sits at -40...
Ah hurtling through the air in a device made of several million parts in a portion of the Earth where the temperature generally sits at -40...
Slavery in some form or other has seemingly been a thing for as long as humans have been humaning, and accepted across most civilizations throughout history....
On August 4, 1945, William Averell Harriman, United States ambassador to the Soviet Union, received a delegation of the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent...
Ah, McDonald’s French Fries. According to a poll we recently ran here, 48% of about 42,000 of you prefer this restaurant’s slender tan starch sticks to...
One of the lasting legacies of Rome in modern society is the concept of a Senate, though it wasn’t really what we think of as a...
In 1789, French General – and later Emperor – Napoleon Bonaparte led a military expedition to capture Egypt from the Ottoman Empire. According to legend, shortly...
On March 31, 1851, a crowd of curious Parisians gathered at the Pantheon to witness a historic scientific demonstration. In the centre of the building, directly...
Ask people to note conspiracy theories they’ve heard of, and inevitably you’ll hear the name Freemasons brought up. Our conceptions of them are influenced by arcane...
At around 7 P.M. on May 2, 1878, the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota was rocked by a massive explosion. In the blink of an eye, the...
Imagine for a moment you are on a long overseas flight – say, for example, Flight SQ22 between Singapore and New York, the longest regularly-scheduled nonstop...