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  Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as “Bandit Queen”, was an Indian female rights activist, bandit, and politician from the Samajwadi Party who later served as Member of Parliament. Born into a poor family in rural Uttar Pradesh, Devi endured poverty, child marriage and had an abusive marriage before taking to a life of ...

  Nature is mysterious and unpredictable and often leaves us open-mouthed at the inexplicable manifestations of its power. Though you may think moving rocks and blood-colored rain is some sort of joke or miraculous occurrence, science has an explication for (almost) everything. From our point of view, Mother Nature continues to be a fascinating mystery. So let’s take a look ...

  The quietest place on earth, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, is so quiet that the longest anybody has been able to bear it is 45 minutes. Inside the room it’s silent. … In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.” But the room isn’t just for torturing people.

  During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Herbert Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, ...

  Just Room Enough Island, also known as Hub Island,[1] is an island located in the Thousand Islands chain, in New York, United States. The island is known for being the smallest inhabited island, which appears to be around 3,300 square feet (310 m2), or about one-thirteenth of an acre. Purchased by the Sizeland family in the 1950s, the island ...