1838 – On November 5, 1838, Honduras declared its absolute independence from the Federal Republic of Central America, ...

No one did it like The Bard, so it’s no surprise that some myths about him and his writing have seeped into our culture over ...

How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profanity, dictionary editors have been at the center of ...

As another NBA season is about to begin, ESPN's host and analyst, Stephen A. Smith, blasted Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, claiming he believes the basketball superstar is fake. Smith recently ...

Lakers vs. Warriors: Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has been sidelined due to a sciatica issue. The injury forced King James to miss all of the Lakers’ preseason games this year. Without ...

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78. Reading time 2 minutes Drew Struzan—the legendary illustrator behind some ...

He married, while Duke of York, Anne Hyde, a maid of honour to his sister, daughter of the future Lord Chancellor. They married in secret at Breda in 1659 and later publicly in London in 1660. She was ...

Earlier this month, fans thought LeBron James might drop the major news that he was retiring from the NBA, only to learn that the Los Angeles Lakers superstar had a Hennessy ad. However, talk about ...

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Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

A rare surviving example of a 17th century mine in Blackburn, which was once visited by King James I, is a reminder of the town's historic textile industry. Alum is a chemical used principally in the ...

Abstract: The terms defined in the Dictionary are listed in letter-by-letter alphabetical order. Spaces are ignored in this style of alphabetization, so cable value will come before cab signal.