Benford’s law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many…
SpaceIL – Israel’s Mission to the Moon
SpaceIL is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that was competing in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon.…
Telescope launch has astronomers hoping
A churning mix of excitement and anxious dread has taken hold of astronomers around the world as they wait for…
17 million animals died in wildfires in Brazil last year
Nearly 17 million vertebrate creatures — animals like snakes, small birds and rodents — are estimated to have been killed…
Fort Ross, is a former Russian establishment
Fort Ross, originally Fortress Ross, is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California.…
Bering Glacier is the largest in North America
Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the Gulf…
The Battle of Marj Ardabil
The Battle of Marj Ardabil or the Battle of Ardabil was a battle fought on the plains surrounding the city of Ardabil in northwestern Iran in AD 730.…
Dominican Republic expels, mistreats Haitians
Bien-Aimé St. Clair frowned as the stream of older Haitian migrants pushed past him. Accused of living in the Dominican…
Apollo / Moon
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been recognized as a…
The Other Victims of the Nazis
– more than five million non-Jews were murdered under the Nazi regime. Among them were Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, blacks,…
Physicists Confirm The Existence of Time Crystals
Are you in the market for a loophole in the laws that forbid perpetual motion? Knowing you’ve got yourself an authentic time…
America’s Myth of Religious Tolerance
The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and utterly at odds with…
Jesus Is Not a Republican
It appears that the Trump presidency will go out with a bang, rather than a whimper. As we arrive at…
The Real Smokey Bear
This year, we celebrated Smokey Bear’s 75th birthday as a national fire prevention icon. Many know Smokey’s message: “Only YOU can…
The ‘First Albania’ is now Azerbaijan
Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus: mostly in what is now Azerbaijan (where both of…
The Battle of the Abas
The Battle of the Abas was fought in 65 BC between the forces of the Roman Republic under Pompey Magnus and those of the Caucasian Albanian…
Jewish history’s forgotten Turkish roots
New research suggests that the majority of the world’s modern Jewish population is descended mainly from people from ancient Turkey,…
Planets to align in December
The final month of the year also features the longest nights of the year, and the extra hours of darkness…
Happy Independence Day, Barbados
Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and…
Save the White Rhinos
Conservationists flew 30 white rhinos from South Africa to Rwanda last week in what they say is the largest single…
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