The English language is fit to burst with terms named after people, a.k.a. eponyms. Some namesakes are pretty obvious—Elizabethan after Queen Elizabeth I, Orwellian after George Orwell, and so forth.

Since the first Winnie-the-Pooh book was published in 1926, the tales of a honey-loving bear and his animal friends have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. But, as Gyles Brandreth writes in ...

An explosion struck a Shell gas station in the Mission District on Monday afternoon, rocking nearby homes and sending a thick, black plume of smoke across the neighborhood. Several dozen firefighters ...

ISLAMABAD, Dec 11, (Xinhua): Two children were killed and 16 others injured when a mortar shell exploded at a seminary in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police sources said on ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A crow dispersal program is set to begin Monday at the State Capitol Complex, and you may hear exploding shells. The Pennsylvania Department of General Services will begin the ...

The explosion occurred in an apartment building in Poland on Oct. 21 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S. Sun, National World, and ...

Vice President JD Vance, right, watches a demonstration by Marines during activities to mark the upcoming Marine Corps' 250th anniversary on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. (Gregory Bull ...

A blast leveled an explosives plant Friday in rural Tennessee, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burned-out shells of cars and at least 18 people missing Tens of thousands told to stay indoors ...

At least four teenagers were killed and two other people were injured when a mortar shell exploded in a field in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bajaur area on Saturday, according to police officials. State-run ...

For the first time in history, researchers observed a dying star stripped nearly to its bare core before it exploded. This newly discovered supernova, designated SN 2021yfj, offers an unprecedented ...

North Yorkshire, England — The already-risky work of fire crews battling a wildfire in England's North York Moors National Park has been made all the more dangerous by World War II-era bombs and tank ...

Orsola De Marco received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated (non-executive director of the Board) with Astronomy Australia Ltd. a not-for-profit company serving Australian ...