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In their bid to ward off creeps, post-Victorian women found a creative use for the hatpin.

William Henry Harrison perished almost as soon as he entered the White House. Is excrement to blame?

The game is an odd testament to the simultaneous strength of the nations' economic relations, and profound cultural differences.

A joke on the religious symbol and an icon of the evolutionary idea of transitional forms, the Darwin fish packs a blasphemous one-two punch.

A little-known Indonesian volcano caused disease, famine and massive arctic melting in the 19th century. Death toll: tens of millions.

Trends in heroin use have shifted significantly in the past decade—what happened?

Growing up in ruralish-surburbanish Middle America, my restaurant experiences consisted largely of Applebee’s and its many iterations.

Islands can serve as vacation getaways secluded from the cares of the world. They can also be sites of isolated horror!

The tiny island of Tashirojima holds cats—and tourists—in great esteem.

We would boil from the inside out if unprotected in outer space, but this tiny critter miraculously survives.