On 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird first demonstrated his 'televisor' in public. It was the prototype for television. Many people couldn't believe what they were seeing whilst others thought it was ...

On 12 January 1976, author Agatha Christie died peacefully, aged 85. She created the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. By the time of her death, Christie had written more than 80 books. Most ...

The Big E Family cheers as Dad wins the lottery and leaves everyone stunned, jaws on the floor and confetti imagined.

Brookfield Zoo, which has cared for generations of polar bears, hopes to offer guidelines for an area where mothers den at ...

The Academy Foundation recently laid off its Oral History Project team in a consolidation its union called 'a sad and ...

Is it a wagon? Is it a hatchback? Kia calls it a hatchback, but regardless of classifications, the Kia K4 Hatchback has one ...

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

Many of our childhood movie choices are defined by the films our parents wouldn't let us see. An NPR panel of movie lovers discusses the films they were forbidden to watch and what it was like to ...

Chrysler made a bold statement with its 2006 Imperial concept. It looked just like a Bentley or Rolls but would never see the ...

The alligator turtle lures poor unsuspecting fish into its jaws with its tongue, which looks like a tasty worm.

"The entire theatre, myself included, gasped in unison like we’d been rehearsing harder than a synchronized swimming team.

Leo Dale, whose parents run the Sonoma Ecology Center, used to get bored on family hikes, so he started taking pictures of ...