Cinema exists to project our dreams. Science-fiction cinema exists to project our most creative dreamstime-travel, alternate worlds, expanded consciousness, and more. That's why we're science-fiction maniacs and why we gathered up our top 100 movies...
Lieutenant Colonel (October 16, 1920 — July 6, 2009) is the only known person to survive a fall from the top of a cloud. He was a USMC pilot, and a and veteran. He was flying an over a cumulonimbus cloud when the engine stalled, forcing him to...
There is perhaps nothing else so distinctive of the condition and character of a people as the method in which they treat their dead. - William Tegg, 1876Throughout the history of human civilizati...
Deathbed bon mots and strangled prose, collected by Thomas Christensen
Researchers from Indiana University are trying to discover how copper coins from Africa, dating back to the 900s, ended up in Australia six centuries before the antipodean country was first 'discovered'.
2011 marks the sesquicentennial of the start of the American Civil War. On New Year's Day 150 years ago, South Carolina had already seceded from the United States and the next months would see ten ...
Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much ...
H. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm), W. 18 7/8 in. (48 cm)Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905 (05.4.2)