The Shortest War in History

The little known Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is generally considered to be the shortest war in history, lasting for a grand total of 38 minut...

The Woman Who Survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic Disasters

Today I Found Out about Violet Jessop, "Miss Unsinkable," the woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and t...

7 Strategies to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety can feel like a monster that is out of control and you have no way of conquering it: nothing could be further from the truth. You ca...

5 Ways to Start Living Your Dream Life Today

  I hesitate to write this because blogs like this usually involve some cheesy rah, rah advice that’s not practical for making it in this me...

The Rock Springs Massacre Of 1885: When 28 Chinese Miners Were Slaughtered, Homes Burned

An illustration of a massacre published in Harper's Weekly, September 26, 1885. The violence against the Chinese laborers was carried o...

See Jupiter like never before: Incredible infrared images show the giant planet's churning atmosphere beyond what we can see with the human eye

Infrared images of the gas giant Jupiter show the massive planet's churning atmosphere like never before - beyond what we can see with t...

China's Zhurong rover will land on Mars TOMORROW and endure 'seven minutes of terror' before touching down in the same area as NASA's 1976 Viking 2 mission

China is set to land its Zhurong rover on Mars on Friday as part of the country's first interplanetary mission. Officials revealed Thurs...

Heysham 'gas explosion': Parents tribute to 'beautiful little angel', 2, killed in blast

George Arthur Hinds, two, was described as a 'beautiful little angel' by his parents after he died in a suspected gas blast which de...

Pigs and mice can breathe through their anus – and humans may be able to as well

Pigs are able to absorb oxygen through the walls of their intestines, new research reveals. Mammals like rats and pigs can absorb oxygen thr...

186-year-old account of US diplomatic visit to Holy Land surfaces at auction

Letter is from passenger on US Navy ship that moored in Jaffa in 1834; when told he couldn't visit J'lem: 'Like Moses, we are on...

US government declares emergency after cyberattack on major fuel pipeline

In this September 8, 2008 file photo, traffic on I-95 passes oil storage tanks owned by the Colonial Pipeline Company in Linden, NJ. A major...

US refuses to shoot down ‘out of control’ 21-ton Chinese rocket falling to Earth – with crash due TOMORROW

THE US has no plans to shoot down a huge Chinese rocket plummeting to Earth, according to a top Pentagon official. The 21-ton booster launch...