Learn a bit more about the world around you - the U.S. Department of State has a good collection of background notes on world countries here.

There's something really funny about seeing bugs in a child's computer game being described in Microsoft's dry, regimented KnowledgeBase format [via NTK].

Submerged city discovered off coast of India.

"MOON ROCKET MISSES TARGET BY 238,799 1/2 MILES" read the waggish newspaper headline in 1929 as Robert Goddard built and launched the first liquid-fuelled rocket. Perhaps not the ringing praise he'd have expected. From the Time 100 Polls Scientists and Thinkers.