Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (1971-1995)

1928 silent film by Paul Leni

Moviegoers might be disappointed to learn that the character does not appear in Disney's reboot.

It was one of many dangerous government experiments on US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code.

For film lovers everywhere.

Far from being a sign of delusion, the so-called ‘illusion of control’ shows that we’re highly attuned to the world

U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black was an icon.  She upheld the highest standards of poise and class, and will be missed. By the time Ambassador Black was assigned to serve in Czechoslovakia in 1989, she was already a seasoned diplomat who had worked in…

Ever wonder how the snow globe was invented? From Vienna comes the story of the family that made the snow globe a collectible worldwide.

Seawater is the secret behind the strength of the Pantheon and Colosseum

Doomscrolling (or doomsurfing) is the act of consuming an endless procession of negative online news, to the detriment of the scroller's mental wellness.

A cheap one-dose antibiotic treatment might wipe yaws, a forgotten disease, off the face of the planet

Bees indirectly led to the discovery of a secret pot farm underneath Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, says the Daily Beast.

For a six-ingredient food product, it's taken on a life of its own. Spam — the square-shaped mash-up of pork, water, salt, potato starch, sugar, and sodium nitrate — recently celebrated its 77th...

CIA program of experiments on human subjects

American actress (1964-1999)

any planet beyond the Solar System

As the world whimpers over the loss of scene-stealing canine actor Uggie, we take a look at other famous pooches who have left their pawprints on our hearts

aviator, businessman, soldier, sportsman

"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released on the 1976 album Desire. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. It compiles acts of racism and profiling against Carter, which Dylan describes…