How do you save Paris from German World War I bombers? By building a life-sized decoy city, of course.
According to The Telegraph, the faux City of Light was created near the end of the war, in 1918, to draw German pilots away …
How do you save Paris from German World War I bombers? By building a life-sized decoy city, of course.
According to The Telegraph, the faux City of Light was created near the end of the war, in 1918, to draw German pilots away …
Remember Julian Assange, the world’s most famous whistleblower? He’s back in the headlines and, from the looks of things, he might be staying there.
It’s only taken three resignations and scores of bad publicity, but St. Paul’s Cathedral has announced that they won’t be pursing legal action against the few hundred protesters camped outside their doors.
In a case captivating Russia, a court has awarded two families $100,000 each in compensation after a shocking blunder by a maternity ward accidentally led them to take home the wrong children⎯12 years ago.
The London arm of the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement has proved its ability to shake up an institution, as a third senior cleric from St. Paul’s Cathedral has resigned in less than three weeks.
A Canadian senator has called for the beaver to lose its status as the country’s national emblem – branding the semi-aquatic dam builders “a dentally defective rat,” reports Reuters.
By the time Christopher Columbus died, there were only 500 million people on Earth. By 2050, the U.N. expects that number to swell to 9.3 billion. That said, I am the also the 4,985,259,234th person to be alive on this planet.
An 18-year-old was pulled from underneath smashed concrete and debris on Thursday – after being trapped for almost 100 hours following the Turkey earthquake.
For 300 years, the English crown passed to the oldest male heir. Now, it will simply go to the first-born – even if she’s a girl.
A young man from one of India’s poorest regions won $1 million on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Hmm, where have we heard this one before?
Muammar Gaddafi is far from the first public figure to be buried in a hush-hush location.
When you think of Mongol invasions, you imagine a fearsome horde galloping across the steppe. You don’t think of hapless sailors clinging to the masts of their ships, cowering in fear at the fury of a churning sea.