Extreme cold and calm conditions on Sayram Lake in northwestern China turned it into a surreal, frozen wonderland. Take a ...

Monsters are everywhere. Vampires (like the one in the recently released Nosferatu) and zombies are the most popular of the ...

A 1,000-year-old manuscript has been missing for centuries, and fragments of it have finally been recovered. The lost ...

National Thesaurus Day, on January 18th, honors Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, who was born on this day ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ ...

They're musicians, maybe. Or possibly, imaginary creatures best lured from a small boat on calm waters. Or maybe they're ...

Korea's exports of traditional rice cakes reached a fresh high in 2024, data showed Wednesday, driven by the growing ...

Space games have been there since the beginning of video game history. Today, these five offer galactic explorers a broad mix ...

The number of words found in old English literature does not exceed 30,000, while the new dictionaries today have listed more than 400,000, mostly of foreign origin. It is strange to note, however, ...

With the arrival of the First Fleet, the colonising British began displacing First Nations languages to install English as the official language of Australia. Almost immediately, the new inhabitants ...

Shamone Duncan, a 20-year veteran of Cook County’s Department of Corrections, was celebrating her sister's birthday at a ...