Head of the Catholic Church The pope (Latin: papa, from Greek: πάππας, romanized: pappas, ‘father’), also known as supreme pontiff (pontifex […]

Large and multi-decked sailing ships A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. […]

Former skyscraper complex in Manhattan, New York World Trade CenterThe original complex in March 2001. The tower on the left, […]

Administrative region of the Spanish Empire in western South America (1542–1824) The Viceroyalty of Peru (Spanish: Virreinato del Perú) was […]

Misleading content in advertisements An 1889 newspaper advertisement for “perfectly harmless” arsenic complexion wafers claims that “a few days’ use […]

British prize for political writing For the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public […]

Toothing was originally a hoax claim that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange random sexual encounters, […]

Canadian-American magician and skeptic (1928–2020) James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a […]

Main research library of the University of Oxford Not to be confused with the Bodleian Libraries, the library group of […]