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Paul Burrell was a footman to Queen Elizabeth II from 1976 to 1987, and then an eyewitness to the marriage of Prince Charles, who is now King Charles III, and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, who is now beatified as a human sacrifice to the House of Windsor. The Royal Insider is a cattily camp, tittle-tattling tell-all in the finest traditions of royal […]

Since its inception as an academic discipline, criminology has concerned itself first and foremost with the question of why people commit crime. Beginning with their earliest research, criminologists gathered extensive data on large groups of people to try to disentangle which variables predicted offending. With sufficiently large samples and adequate measurements, these criminologists thought, they could determine why some people commit lots of crime, while others commit none at all. The post Crime and the Criminologists appeared first on .

Ever wonder what the six teeth on all Venetian gondolas signify? (The six districts of Venice.) Or why and how chicken wing flats are stripped out to form a "meat umbrella" during competitive eating contests? (Much easier to consumer them faster.) Or why some movie stars are credited as "with" or "and"? (They indicate a major star playing a small but significant role.) Or where the "V for Victory" originated? (Occupied Belgium in 1941, as a warning to the Nazis.) Then Ben Schott's Significa is just the book for you. The post A Lexicon for the Linguistically Curious appeared first on .

Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday during joint U.S.-Israeli military operations across the Islamic Republic, ending his 36-year reign as the country's bloodthirsty theocratic dictator, Reuters reported Saturday afternoon. The post Whack-A-Mullah: Khamenei Killed in Historic Israeli Strike on Tyrant's Compound appeared first on .