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At 8:15 PM local time on February 19, 1994, paramedics brought 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez to the emergency [...]

Ben Matlock, the Atlanta-based fictional attorney portrayed by Andy Griffith in the eponymous television [...]

The second half of the 20th century was marked by the Cold War, a struggle between the United States (and its [...]

In recent months, “planking,” an Internet-fueled fad, has travelled the globe. Planking is the [...]

Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, in Oceana.  It has a population of [...]

Aspirin is a bit of a miracle drug. It can be used to treat fever, pain, arthritis, and headaches. It can [...]

The Nares Strait is the channel of water that separates Greenland from the northernmost Canadian island, [...]

In Pulp Fiction, Jules — the character played by Samuel L. Jackson — explains to Vincent (John [...]

The Indian state of Goa sits on India’s western shore.  It is the smallest of the nation’s 28 [...]

Henrietta Lacks, pictured above, died on October 4, 1951, from cervical cancer which had metastasized [...]