The Chase & Sanborn coffee advertisement depicting a man raising his hand to spank a woman appeared in a 1952 issue of Life ...

Michael Loewe, who has died aged 102, led the attempt to break the main Japanese naval code at Bletchley Park, before working ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize ...

In an 8-million-acre hoodwink, Gregor MacGregor stole the lifesavings of hundreds of farmers and sent scores to their deaths.

One of Eddie Murphy's funniest quotes from SNL (let alone his entire career) originates from this short mockumentary called ...

An award-winning Northern Irish designer could be on the cusp of moving to one of the biggest brands in fashion, according to ...

The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used ...

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

In January 1956, a massive snowstorm hit Alton, leaving sidewalks snow-covered and merchants responsible for clearing them.

Samuel M. Feldman, former CEO of Webster Clothes Inc. whose philanthropic interests included Jewish, educational and cultural ...

That had begun to change in the late 1960s, when the future Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman and cardiologist Dr. Waldo Harris ...

When Nashville was working toward opening its first major art museum, other cities were eager to tap internationally ...