English author, film director, and visual artist

American actor (1924-1973)

There is more to a flamingo than its bright pink feathers. Get to know these delightfully unusual birds with 10 fun facts — some of which may surprise you!

The "lost" apples will help restore genetic, culinary diversity to a crop North America once produced in astonishing variety

  “…few or no materials of any sort…, for construction…, existed….the wood…was standing in the forests; the iron for the cannon lying in its natural. . .

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (/roʊˈdɛnʃə/), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are native…

Well, I’m finally home from my VITAC training. It was a tad cold up in Pennsylvania for this Florida girl, but I did get to see some flurries and that made everything all right. My equipment came and I’ve been in training for the past few weeks. I’m so excited…

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A religious tyrant decides that Salman Rushdie should die for writing a “blasphemous” book. For ten years he is forced to flee from one safe-house to another with no one for company but his bodyguards and an increasingly estranged wife. How does he pass the…

We delve into the pantry and give you the lowdown on a common condiment.Know your mustardThree plants from the Brassica (cabbage) family produce musta...

The one time it might be ok to obsess over your follower count

In 1977 artist Tom Otterness shot a dog. This week, another artist depicted this in a near perfect Otterness-style statue, now housed in the 14th Street subway station.

Legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson once had a disturbing dream he killed someone in the boxing right. Then it came true.

The Hollywood actor recalls how he and some of the people involved in the production of 'Platoon' were 'out on the streets with the people.'

Harriet Tubman escaped the bonds of slavery as a young woman in the early 1800s. She returned to the South many times as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad to lead other African Americans to freedom. During the Civil War, Tubman served as a spy, nurse…

Justice department traces money from 1MDB fund to $1bn worth of assets such as Beverly Hills property, a Monet and production of DiCaprio movie

In pipeline transportation, pigging is the practice of using pipeline inspection gauges, devices generally referred to as pigs or scrapers, to perform various maintenance operations. This is done without stopping the flow of the product in the pipeline.

No Time to Die, opening in April, celebrates an obsession with Aston Martin. We met the stunt driver who piloted replicas of the classic DB5 in the movie.

Wendy's conspicuous absence from the European market has to do with a business decision it made in the 1980s and a battle that raged in the decades since.