Today is Friday, Nov. 7, the 311th day of 2025. There are 54 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won ...

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Robert Wadlow was born in 1918 in Illinois, United States and stood at 8 feet 11 inches. Robert Wadlow holds the record for ...

More than 200 metric tons of mercury ― still stored in the same steel flasks from which some of it leaked at an upstate New ...

There are only two accepted representations of William Shakespeare that are considered “official” – but could a portrait that ...

North Brunswick Township Police Officer Nate Nicholson, a 12-year veteran of the Police Department, caught a baby dropped from a second-floor balcony of a burning apartment building on Willowbrook ...

From Batemans Bay to Bateau Bay, from Canberra to Cardiff in Newcastle, readers of The Daily Telegraph are volunteering to track food costs. Why are they helping? The most common reason cited by the ...