In Fast Five, the heist the team are planning in Rio requires some cop cars, and after Dom, Brian, Tej, and Rome steal four of them from a local police station, they can’t help but have a quick drag race. They bet a million dollars, and Dom allegedly lets Brian…
State of Massachusetts Not technically a dinosaur, but an ancient crocodile-like reptile known as a “protosuchid,” Stegomosuchus was a tiny creature of the early Jurassic period (the only known fossil specimen was discovered in Massachusetts sediments dating to about 200 million years ago). Local fossils had already caught the attention…
The double was his. On his last attempt on the last day of the year, Donald Campbell had set a new world water speed record of 276.33mph, becoming the only person ever to break the land and water speed records in the same calendar year. Much has been written about…
The fossil of the Hadrosaurid Hypsibema missouriensis have been found in Bollinger County. In fact, fossils of Hypsibema are among the only known dinosaur remains in the state. The Mississippi embayment still covered part of Missouri during the early Cenozoic. The story of the Missouri dinosaur is very long and…
The world believed Donald Crowhurst was completing the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe. Then his boat was found, empty and adrift. In 1969, Donald Crowhurst fooled the world into believing he was completing the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe. Donald Crowhurst participated in the Sunday Times…
While the late, great Ronnie James Dio once admitted that he made the metal devil horns “fashionable” rather than outright inventing them, it seems as though we’ve now potentially found the source of how this iconic hand gesture became so mainstream: Geezer ButlerGeezer ButlerButler grew up in a working-class Irish…
President Donald Trump has repeatedly bragged about his athletic prowess as a youth, and has even claimed he could’ve played Major League Baseball. “I was captain of the baseball team,” Trump told MTV in 2010. “I was supposed to be a professional baseball player. The Phillies weren’t the only team…
“It depends on what you mean by dirt,” says Milan Pavich, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. “The oldest sedimentary rocks are about 3.9 billion years old—they’re in Greenland—and at one time, they were dirt. Scientists have found fossilized soils and samples from African deserts that are more…
Before her execution, Hui-bin acknowledges her wrongs and begs Dong-yi to protect the Crown Prince. The king offers for Dong-yi to become Queen and Geum to become the Crown Prince. The king offers for Dong-yi to become queen and Prince Geum to become the crown prince. However, Dong-yi refuses. She…
Prior to the 2012 National Association of Television Program Executives conference, 20th Century Fox announced that Dish Nation would return for a 52-week, full series run to premiere September 10, 2012. WireImage Porsha Williams is leaving “Dish Nation” after eight years with the entertainment news show. The “Real Housewives of…