Born: June 14, 1805, Jefferson county, Kentucky, U.S. (Show more) Died: October 26, 1871, Nice, France (Show more) Robert Anderson (born June 14, 1805, Jefferson county, Kentucky, U.S.—died October 26, 1871, Nice, France) was a career U.S. Army officer who fought for the Union during the American Civil War. Anderson was the commander of the Federal garrison at Fort Sumter...

Earth's magnetic field may have been similarly as strong 3.7 billion years ago as it is today, pushing the earliest date for this planetary protective bubble back 200 million years. The timing puts the magnetic field in play around the same time life was first emerging on Earth. The oldest fossils on the planet bacterial mats called stromatolites date back...

　　Related People: Medha Patkar Arvind Kejriwal (Show more) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), political party in India formed by Arvind Kejriwal in November 2012, in the wake of the 2011 anti-corruption movement in India. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP; “Common Man’s Party”) is headquartered in New Delhi. It has served as the ruling party in the national capital territory of Delhi...

　　Fight Club, American drama film, released in 1999, that was directed by David Fincher and adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of an alienated office worker and a charismatic nihilist who start an underground club at which disaffected young men violently fight each other. Under the nihilist’s direction, club members begin...

　　Also called: Congo dwarf crocodile (Show more) Osborn’s dwarf crocodile, (Osteolaemus osborni), small crocodile species that inhabits the tropical forests and wetlands of Africa’s Congo River basin. The geographic range of Osborn’s dwarf crocodile extends from southeastern Cameroon and southwestern Central African Republic southward to the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, and northwestern...

　　In full: William Aaron May (Show more) Born: January 17, 1979, Syracuse, New York, U.S. (Show more) Bill May (born January 17, 1979, Syracuse, New York, U.S.) is an artistic swimmer who specializes in mixed duet performances. He has won numerous national and international competitions in spite of being excluded for much of his career from events in which men...

　　Boy in a Red Waistcoat, an oil-on-canvas painting by Paul Cézanne created between 1888 and 1890, one of four oil paintings and two watercolors of this red-vested model. The work reflects the French painter’s distinctive style—a mix of Impressionism with Classicism and an intense intellectualism—that was so progressive for its time. Boy in a Red Waistcoat shows the artist’s preoccupation...

　　Empowered by the Clean Air Act of 1970, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quickly established air quality standards to protect public health and the environment. Focusing on six “criteria” air pollutants—sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, and lead—the resultant National Ambient Air Quality Standards became the centerpiece of air pollution regulations and required that all U.S....

A heat wave fueled by climate change helped create deadly, record-breaking hail in Spain, a new study finds. The baseball-sized hail hit northeastern Spain in August 2022, injuring 67 people and killing a 20 month old girl. Videos of the storm show balls of ice up to 4.7 inches (12 centimeters) wide dropping from the sky, smashing car windows and...

　　The Bear, American television dramedy about Carmen (“Carmy”) Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a fine-dining chef who returns to Chicago to help run his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop. Since its 2022 premiere, it has been among the most popular broadcast shows. It is produced by FX and appears on Hulu, becoming in its first season one of FX’s most-watched half-hour...

　　Born: September 11, 1957, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. (Show more) James McBride (born September 11, 1957, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American author and musician known for his acclaimed works of historical fiction and autobiography, including the best-selling memoir The Color of Water (1996) and the National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird (2013). McBride was the eighth...

　　Related Places: Israel Jerusalem Gethsemane Mount of Olives (Show more) The Old City of Jerusalem, adorned with its ancient stone structures and garnished with gray and gold-plated domes, is a mosaic of the communities that through history have viewed the city as one of the most sacred meeting points between heaven and earth. For Jews, the city’s Mount Zion was...