Most car enthusiasts and engineers assume that “horsepower” is a precise scientific constant.

The documents belonged to a team of architects who had quietly observed the Austrian village of Hallstatt for months. They were not there for a holiday.

On the morning of May 26, 1977, New York City commuters exited the subway and witnessed an impossible sight.

Ingo Swann was an American artist and writer who became one of the most studied psychics in history.

The Anti-PowerPoint Party (APPP) was founded by Matthias Poehm to advocate for a decrease in the use of presentation software in professional and educational settings.

This simple moment of suburban multitasking sparked a global phenomenon that would eventually see competitors scaling the faces of mountains and diving into the depths of the ocean with cordless irons and foldable boards.

A creature born when George Washington was still president, surviving to witness the dawn of World War I. This was not a tortoise or a whale, but a sulphur-crested cockatoo named Cocky Bennett.

While the Dutch Golden Age was famous for its grand masters and global trade, the town of Edam produced a marvel of a different sort: Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever.

Rather than remain in the United States under the new federal laws, an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Southerners packed their belongings and boarded steamships bound for a foreign empire.