Michael Shinabery writes about the discoverer of Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, an impoverished self-educated amateur astronomer from Kansas.

The Victorians were never ones to use one sentence where 12 paragraphs would do quite nicely and the result was often long-winded, florid descriptions that always make us hear Patrick Stewart reading them out loud in our heads. Beachcombing brings us one such tale from late 19th century Ireland concerning a haunted “House on the […]

… axes of the two larger pyramids at Giza, those of Khufu and Khafre (approximately 0.5 arc minutes), and that the sides of Khafre's pyramid are actually more perfectly perpendicular than those of the 'Great Pyramid' of Khufu.

Fears that the U.S. is being invaded by illegal aliens, of vast numbers waiting to stream across the border and undermine the American working class may seem ripped from the today's headlines today, but a century and a half …

This Sunday's episode 2, featuring the stories of Samson and Delilah, the Ark of the Covenant, Saul, and David defeating Goliath, could be even bigger. Bringing to life biblical hero Samson thrilled Burnett and Downey. The power couple describes, "Game …

It may be a matter of time before N. Korea launches an attack on the South.

Episode two featured the stories of Samson and Delilah, the Ark of the Covenant, Saul, and David defeating Goliath. Episode two, unlike the first installment, had a more deliberate pace and was focused more on the characters, developing the plot and …

Ironically, all this occurs while he's the caretaker of the Ark of the Covenant, and devising a plan to build God's temple. Next week's episodes will be the last of the Old Testament and the start of the New Testament. Jim Wallis was consulted in the …

Episode two of History Channel's epic new miniseries, "The Bible" tackles the stories of Samson and Delilah, the Ark of the Covenant, Saul and David defeating Goliath. The episode opens with Joshua and the Israelites invading the city of Jericho …

Meteorological events that happened on March 11th:1888Rain began falling during the afternoon in New York City. By evening, it turned to freezing rain, coating the city in ice. Shortly after midnight on the 12th, it changed over to snow…