Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already had ...
Using computer modeling, researchers estimate Everest grows about 2 millimeters annually. That could add up to anywhere from 50 to 165 extra feet since the Arun and Kosi rivers merged roughly 89,000 ...
Zsuzsanna Fazekas, a folk physician who provided abortions as well as veterinary care, was also an amateur chemist. She had a unique way of boiling flypaper in vinegar to produce arsenic. Women ...
The gravesite belongs to Indiana native Nancy Kerlin Barnett, who died in 1831. The spot is considered by some to be one of the state’s most haunted locations, but the real reason road workers were ...
One such necropolis was erected on property once occupied by Father François de La Chaise d’Aix, the onetime confessor for Louis XIV—hence the name. ( Père means “father” in French.) The government ...