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You probably have a drawer full of T-shirts. They're comfy, easy to style, cheap and ubiquitous. But the T-shirt is anything ...
The 1990s were a boom time for new programming languages. The rise of the internet and the increasing complexity of software ...
The Britpop band Oasis will reunite for a 2025 world tour kicking off Friday in Cardiff, Wales. It is a surprising run of ...
Here are some of the United Nations' history-making events as the world body marks the anniversary of its founding on June 26 ...
As with his father, James’ career ended with legal trouble in the 1980s. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a sweeping kickback scheme in which he accepted $750,000 in payments to help ...
The United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC 3) will open in Nice, France, on June 9, 2025. It is the third conference of its kind, following events in New York in 2017 and Lisbon in 2022. Co-hosted ...
By the early 1980s, researchers had accumulated enough data to confidently believe that infinitely many Mersenne primes exist. They could even guess how often these prime numbers appear, on average.
Where does NPR get its funding? Today on the show, we open our books and share a brief history of public radio. And we learn what's at stake with President Trump's executive order to cut off ...
India deemed the device a “peaceful nuclear explosive”. 1980s: The rebellion in Kashmir By the early 1980s, Kashmir was back at the centre of India-Pakistan tensions.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were a pivotal transitional period in the world of cricket, marked by the decline of previously dominant teams and the rise of new forces. Starts Saturday, March 15.
Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign—whose slogan was, yes, “Let’s Make America Great Again”—called for the dismantlement of the new Department of Education.