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The original Grease has not endured the ravages of time with a whole lot of grace, and its reviled 1982 sequel has fared even worse. Nevertheless, Grease 2 had one living, breathing redeeming quality: ...
The sports world, especially as delivered by broadcast media, now provides an unlimited supply of buckets with which to poison the well.
The famous director was visiting a friend at the old Granada Studios when he stepped onto the cobbles and popped his head ...
As the walls came down around him, Adolf Hitler made extra sure that when he was ready to take his own life, he’d be ...
Top German forensic expert Professor Klaus Püschel has drawn upon long-buried secret Soviet autopsy files, KGB archive ...
Explore the dark origins of the UK’s Poison Garden—a unique blend of nature and danger dreamt up by a Duchess with a passion for deadly plants and a twist of spite!
In Baldur’s Gate 3, the noxious fumes in Auntie Ethel’s lair can be a huge pain. They inflict bad poison damage, but they’re also flammable, and the area is laced with explosive traps that ...
The body needs water to function correctly, but drinking too much too fast can have serious health consequences. The kidneys can only remove 0.8 to 1.0 liters (L) of water per hour, and a very ...
A teenager who feared she would ‘never go home’ from hospital has re-learned how to walk, talk and swallow, after undergoing a rare operation - which saw medics store part of her skull in her ...
A girl has relearned how to walk, talk and swallow after undergoing an operation rarely carried out on children, in which doctors stored part of her skull in her stomach. Ellie Morris-Davies ...
The kernels within the fruit are considered to be the most poisonous part. The poison is called cerberin, and it is a cardiac glycoside that inhibits the sodium-potassium ATPase of the heart if ...
By the 1700s, many Europeans feared the tomato. According to one theory, the “golden apple” became the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick and died after eating ...