Trying to prove the real inventor of the March Madness pool seems about as implausible as picking a perfect bracket.

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Could it really be true? That of all of college basketball’s urban myths, one of New York’s five boroughs is actually the ...

Many would agree that the Monday after daylight saving time begins is among the worst days of the year. Even though time "springs forward" one hour early Sunday morning, it can take a few days ...

Sweet-toothed fans have been enjoying their creations - from After Eights to chunky Yorkie bars and tangy Fruit Pastilles - for decades. But, since Rowntree’s was founded in York in 1862 by ...

Maria Orosa is not just a street in Manila but should be remembered as the name of a World War II heroine associated with a famous Filipino food invention: Banana ketchup. In the website ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...

Odesa is to Ukraine as New York City is to the United States: a port city, a center of commerce and a place where languages, cultures and traditions collide, then meld into an instantly ...