? •?The name William Dampier may not mean anything to you, but this swashbuckling pirate was?

When you think of a pirate, you probably imagine a rum-swilling, eyepatch-wearing, parrot-adorning, peg-legged, doubloon-hoarding thief.

Kate and William didn’t spend their honeymoon there, and Transylvania wasn’t on the Lonely Planet’s list of the 10 best places to go this year…but it’s certainly on Prince Charles’ radar.

By The Nature Conservancy ? Imagine the incredible vastness of the forest that greeted William Penn when in 1682 the first arrived in what is now Pennsylvania.

Some big names are gathering to celebrate and honor the work of former President Bill Clinton and his William J.

Aug. 15, 1934: William Beebe and Otis Barton dive more than a half-mile in their bathysphere as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, founded four years earlier, becomes a pioneer in deep-diving.

MIAMI – The Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team on Wednesday maintained its 2011 Atlantic hurricane season forecast at nine hurricanes, with five of them expected to be major. ? The leading storm research team, founded by hurricane forecast pioneer William Gray, said the six-mon

In 1926, the German artist Fritz Kahn depicted the human body as an “Industrial Palace,” where man had become a factory of photographic lenses, mechanical lungs, and conveyor belts moving lumps of food past tiny workers and enzyme sprayers in our steel intestines. The original lithograph was eventually turned into this excellent visualization by German computer artist Henning Lederer in 2009, and, according to a review in today's New York Times , the two are some of the more memorable pieces on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibit ” Health for Sale: Posters From the William H

Photo: PEZ Blog In the market for a royal PEZ dispenser? The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton — set for this Friday, April 29 — has inspired dozens of trinkets, tchotckeys, and souvenirs of varying usefulness, quality, and taste, from cheesy mugs and ugly t-shirts to horrifying appliances and wasteful cell phones

Photo: Getty Centre William Henry Fox Talbot 1843 If you are in the Los Angeles, California area, run, don’t walk to this tree hugging exhibition of 40 photos of trees in all their glory. Called In Focus: The Tree at the Getty Centre , the show poetically surveys artists’ responses to this primeval subject with shots ranging from the 1800′s (above) to the very current (see after the fold). …