The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

May 19: Malcolm X is born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, the fourth of Earl and Louise Little's seven children. Earl, a Baptist minister, is a follower of Marcus Garvey's black nationalism and ...

K.K. Slider is a traveling musician who has performed songs with his guitar in every version of Animal Crossing. He is a special, non-playable character who makes his return in Animal Crossing: New ...

The following contains mentions of suicide. For the first four seasons of Lost, the only sort of "time travel" that the show utilized was flashbacks to the survivors' lives before the plane crash on a ...

Discover the pivotal events between 1918 and 1942 that shaped the first half of World War II. This timeline traces that path from the bitter conclusion of the First World War through the ascendancy of ...

While the X-Men made their name in comic form, the X-Men movie adaptations have become beloved in their own right, with such fan favorites as Patrick Stewart’s Charles Xavier and Hugh Jackman’s ...

His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu Astatke wants to turn the spotlight on the tribal musicians of his beloved ...

Minecraft Preview 26.10.21 introduces Bedrock players to a new item called the golden dandelion, new models for more baby mobs, and plenty of changes and bug fixes. Last week, Mojang announced the ...

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