Eli Lilly and Company is one of the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical and biomedical companies, known for the development and manufacture of a wide range of prescription medications for humans and animals. Among its best-known products are Cialis, a treatment for erectile dysfunction; Prozac, an antidepressant; Zyprexa, an antipsychotic; and diabetes medications Trulicity, Mounjaro, and Jardiance. In 2023, Lilly began...

　　 　　If you’ve ever used an ATM at a convenience store or supermarket, you may have paid a fee—and perhaps not a small one, either. Expected or not, those fees can add up if you use an ATM regularly. 　　But it’s easy to avoid ATM fees if you understand how you incur them, the different types of fees you might...

　　Born: March 25, 1980, Ndiaganiao, Senegal (Show more) Bassirou Diomaye Faye (born March 25, 1980, Ndiaganiao, Senegal) is a Senegalese politician and former tax inspector who became the president-elect of Senegal in March 2024. Faye was raised in Ndiaganiao, where he attended Marie Médiatrice Catholic School. He later attended Lycée Demba Diop in Mbour, where he graduated in 2000. Faye...

　　Poetry is one of the world’s oldest and most adaptable art forms. A poem can be spoken, sung, read, or performed. It can take the form of a nursery rhyme, an epic, a ghazal, a tanka, a limerick, a film, or even a dance. English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” Certainly,...

　　Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect), one of a series of paintings that French artist Claude Monet created between 1890 and 1891 depicting heaps of grain behind his house in Giverny, France. Comprising 25 canvases, the series as a whole tracks the effect that light, both in various seasons and during different times of the day, has upon the appearance...

　　Also called: cellophane bee or polyester bee (Show more) plasterer bee, (family Colletidae), large family of bees with more than 2,500 species found worldwide. Their common name, which is often used to refer to the bees of the genus Colletes, is derived from the protective, cellophane-like material that females secrete and plaster to the walls of their brood cells—a behavior...

　　Born: August 10, 2000, Windsor, Colorado, U.S. (Show more) Sophia Smith (born August 10, 2000, Windsor, Colorado, U.S.) is an American professional football (soccer) player who is considered one of the top athletes in the sport. Smith plays in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) as a forward on the Portland Thorns Football Club (FC) in Oregon and is a...

　　Basking under San Francisco’s summer sun, an immense kaleidoscope of youths thrummed with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet the Summer of Love was so much more than that three-pronged cliché. Flowers, fashion, posters, theater, panhandling, commercialism, revolution, anarchy, freedom—all these and more were overflowing among the young Americans packed into the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. They arrived to take...

　　Iron Pillar of Delhi, pillar rising above the central courtyard of the Qūwat-ul-Islām mosque in the Quṭb Mīnār complex in Mehrauli, Delhi, that is famous for being relatively rust-free despite having been created more than 1,600 years ago, about 400 ce. The six-ton pillar was made during the Gupta period, likely at Udayagiri in what is now the state of...

　　2006 Lebanon War, (July 12–August 14, 2006), 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon of which the proximate cause was a cross-border attack by Hezbollah fighters that culminated with the kidnapping of a pair of Israeli soldiers and the killing of eight others. 　　Background: Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon Hezbollah emerged in southern Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil...

　　 　　Whether it’s a refund you expected or a check out of the blue, finding money waiting in your mailbox can feel even better than finding a $20 bill in your jeans pocket. What will you do with this unexpected windfall? Before you spend it, it’s smart to take the time to think about your financial goals—and make sure you...

　　Also called: Mexican crocodile or Belize crocodile (Show more) Morelet’s crocodile, (Crocodylus moreletii), medium-sized crocodile species inhabiting forests and wetlands and coastal freshwater and brackish waterways in Belize, northern Guatemala, and states in Mexico bordering the Gulf of Mexico. The species is distinguished from others by the shape of its snout. Unlike other crocodiles, which have triangular snouts, Morelet’s crocodile...