If not for a doctor uncle, Herbert Hoover might not have lived past age 2.

"The Wizard of Oz" burst into brilliant Technicolor 75 years ago. On Aug. 15, 1939, 10,000 fans lined the streets of Hollywood for the gala premiere, just two days before the now-iconic film opened to the public.It wasn't the first adaptation of Frank L.…

How a fast-food marketing campaign turned into a widespread Yuletide tradition for millions

A bōnenkai (忘年会, literally "forget the year gathering") is a Japanese drinking party that takes place at the end of the year, and is generally held among groups of co-workers or friends. The purpose of the party, as its name implies, is to forget the woes…

The legendary children's television host is often viewed as a near-saint, but it turns out he found farting just as funny as the rest of us.

historical profession

American publisher, activist, and inventor of the bra

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They’ve got great hearing, but is there truth to being “blind as a bat”?

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a 1992 American Christmas musical fantasy comedy film directed by Brian Henson (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Jerry Juhl. The fourth theatrical film in The Muppets franchise, it was the first film to…

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

The British actress says Boseman took a pay cut in order to raise her salary on the film 21 Bridges.

1953 American animated short film directed by Chuck Jones

The Pinocchio paradox arises when Pinocchio says "My nose grows now" and is a version of the liar paradox. The liar paradox is defined in philosophy and logic as the statement "This sentence is false." Any attempts to assign a classical binary truth value…

honorific title for a holder of a doctoral degree

Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones discusses the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. (now Chiquita Brands International). Jones examines the impact and role of the…

On July 14, 1918, Quentin Roosevelt, a pilot in the United States Air Service and the fourth son of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, is shot down and

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