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One of the most famous disasters in history, the April 15, 1912, sinking of the RMS Titanic continues to captivate modern ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. is an American hero who did some incredible things during his lifetime. A pilot, astronaut, engineer, and politician (among other things), Glenn served his country ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and ...

Highly adaptable, Asian small-clawed otters can thrive in a variety of freshwater aquatic habitats, from swamps and mangrove ...

Ichiro Suzuki's remarkable Major League career is over after an emotional farewell in Tokyo, and his career, somewhat incredibly, ended the same way it began. Ichiro's first career MLB game (2001): ...

The Apollo program is arguably the most famous achievement of the United States regime, but how much do you really know about ...

Just like no two human fingerprints are the same, every dog has a one-of-a-kind nose print. The ridges and patterns on a ...