The U.S. higher educational system may in future years lose $38 billion a year. This is the estimated annual contribution by foreign students to the operation of that system. In ...

Paul Tenngart's book explores the Nobel Prize in Literature's influence on global literary canon, highlighting biases and the ...

Mark Twain sent the following note to the London correspondent of the New York Journal, “The report of my death is greatly exaggerated.” The famous author’s statement informing the newspaper of their ...

Officials are warning people to avoid a rural portion of Wilson Road, where a tractor-trailer carrying ‘blasting agents’ tipped over.

From Edvard Munch's "Scream" and Gustav Vigeland's sculptures to the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo is a treasure trove of sites.

Read on to discover why the inventors of these 19 creations wish they'd left these ideas firmly on the scrap heap. Orville ...

and his transition from arms manufacturer to founder of the Nobel Prize is intriguing. Known as the 'dynamite king,' he emerged from a family with ties to weaponry; his father, Immanuel ...

The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling dynamite and explosives in the 19th century, was not an obvious candidate to become the namesake ...

The central bank established it in 1968 as a memorial to Nobel, the 19th-century Swedish businessman and chemist who invented dynamite and established the five Nobel Prizes. Though Nobel purists ...