James J. Williams

Mark Moffett spent two days tracking down world’s heaviest insect, giant weta

Mark Moffett, a nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect, weta, on a remote…

13 years ago

Svetlana Peters, Stalin’s only daughter, dies at 85 in Wisconsin

Svetlana Peters, the only daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin has died in Wisconsin, aged 85. Stalin’s daughter, who…

13 years ago

Disney’s Hungry Hobos, featuring Mickey Mouse prototype, dicovered in a British archive

Hungry Hobos, a long-lost Disney cartoon that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (a character who was the prototype for Mickey…

13 years ago

NASA launched Curiosity to look for possible origins of life on Mars

Curiosity, the world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer has been launched today on a 354 million mile journey to Mars that hopes…

13 years ago

Black Friday Q&A

Black Friday Shopping: Q & A The day after Thanksgiving, or Black Friday, kicks off the holiday shopping season. Each…

13 years ago

D.B. Cooper author of 1983 rare book “HA-HA-HA”?

D.B. Cooper is claimed to be the author of a 1983 rare book, entitled "HA-HA-HA", featuring a drawing of a…

13 years ago

ESA picked up a signal from Phobos-Grunt, Russia’s troubled Mars mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has finally contacted Phobos-Grunt, Russia's troubled Mars mission. ESA reports that its tracking…

13 years ago

CERN scientists broke the speed of light for the second time

Physicists from CERN, Swiss, ran again the test that had proved the theory of relativity was wrong – and broke…

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Max Holland about JFK’s assassination: “Digital technology proves Oswald did act alone”

A team of historians and retired Secret Service officers led by historian Max Holland has used new technology to categorically…

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800 Powelliphanta giant snails frozen to death by mistake in New Zealand

800 endangered Powelliphanta giant land snails, were accidentally frozen to death by conservationists in New Zealand. The giant land snails…

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Veterans Day 2011: holiday and veterans facts

Veterans Day started on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Veterans Day was first called…

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Zambia: baby elephant and its mother rescued from the mud of Kapani Lagoon

A baby elephant and its mother were rescued by conservation workers after they got stuck in the mud of Kapani…

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2005 YU55 asteroid whistled past Earth at 202,000 miles away

2005 YU55, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier whistled past Earth at a distance of 202,000 miles away,…

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11-11-11: the palindromic date will be next Friday on Veterans Day, when a new film will be released.

At 11.11.11 on 11.11.11, the time and date will be a perfect same-numbered palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards,…

13 years ago

The first-ever Emergency Alert System (EAS) test at 2 p.m. EST across America

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) remind American people not to panic when they…

13 years ago

Gunilla von Post, JFK’ Swedish lover dies at 79

Gunilla von Post, the Swedish socialite, who had an affair with John F. Kennedy, died at 79. Gunilla von Post…

13 years ago

California: two 1,500-year-old sequoias collapsed at the Trail of 100 Giants in Sierra Nevada

A pair of 1,500-year-old and 250 feet giant sequoias - whose branches are the size of normal trees - dramatically…

13 years ago

Filthy message dated 1902 scrawled on a wooden pillar of Kensington Palace

A filthy message dated 1902 and scrawled on a wooden pillar beside the front door has been uncovered during a…

13 years ago

Daylight Saving Time ends tonight at 2 a.m. Don’t forget to set your clocks 1 h back!

Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour before going to bed tonight because Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday…

13 years ago

ADL Survey: 15% of US adult population hold anti-Semitic views

An US nationwide survey released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that 15% of US adult population – nearly…

13 years ago

JFK stole “Ask not…” speech from his headmaster, Chris Matthews revealed in a new book.

According to Chris Matthews' book, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, JFK stole what was to become the best known quote of…

13 years ago

Having Fun with the Top Free Android Applications

Call clarity and the number of minutes provided used to be the main criteria by which people chose their cellular…

13 years ago

Which Are the Top Android Phones?

Almost everybody has a cell phone nowadays.   Even the people who vowed they would never ever discover the usefulness…

13 years ago

History of Halloween

Halloween is not an American holiday. In fact, Halloween is considered to be one of the oldest holidays in the…

13 years ago

Taj, a Bengal tiger plays with a little girl at Cougar Mountain Zoo, Washington.

Photographer Dyrk Daniels captured the remarkable moments when a huge Bengal tiger bowed its head and placed a paw up…

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