Curiosities

<!--qv q:id=76 q:key=vcaa:Across its eight-season run, Game of Thrones became part of modern culture, a must-see show that blends striking characters and twisting plots with big-money special effects and spectacular scenes. Based on author George R.R. Martin's A Song...

Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley had been married for just five months when she was fatally shot while sitting in his car in May 2001. Though he was arrested for her murder, he was ultimately acquitted due to...

Bacskai, Owen, and Daniel I. Weiner. "How Weak Federal Ethics Laws Enable Presidential Profiteering | Brennan Center for Justice." Brennan Center, 31 Mar. 2026, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-weak-federal-ethics-laws-enable-presidential-profiteering.Christopher, Chip. USOGE | Why Doesn't OGE Do More Ethics Investigations? 1 Aug. 2022, https://www.oge.gov/Web/OGE.nsf/Leadership%20Notes/208F7116DA664144852588910048D464?opendocument.Criminal...

<!--qv q:id=76 q:key=vcaa:Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool on June 18, 1942. The son of a local cotton exchange worker and a midwife, he grew up in a typical working-class household where music and singing songs...

Believed to date back 500 years to the reign of King Henry VIII, the tunnels are thought to have been part of his lavish country estate known as Beaulieu.Henry Godfrey-Evans/BBCWorkers at New Hall School found an entrance to tunnels...

Did Trump feed US Olympic men's hockey team McDonald's at White House?Feb. 26, 2026 "That got out there that it was McDonald's, but it wasn't," U.S. player Jack Eichel said on a po ... Read More ...

The Burj Khalifa is one of the most incredible marvels of human engineering. When it opened in Dubai in 2010, people around the world were stunned by its height. But there’s much more to this skyscraper than its record-breaking size. From...

<!--qv q:id=76 q:key=vcaa:A common aspect of a wedding party is the groomsmen. Also known as the ushers, these are the male companions who assist the man or men getting married. One of these men is often chosen as the...

The Wild Bunch terrorized the American frontier in the 1890s, carrying out bold heists and shooting any lawmen who got in their way — but by the first decade of the 20th century, most of the outlaws were dead...

Claim: Under U.S. President Donald Trump's second administration, federal agencies have shrunk the habitat requirement for grizzly bears from 2,500 acres to 1 acre. Rating: What's True The U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service changed their definition of a minimum...