Explore 14 American estates where you can tour lavish rooms, detailed architecture, and stories that bring history to life.

How Wilde’s haters and clever manipulation and promotion created the persona of the much loved Wilde. A book mapping Oscar Wilde’s tour of America claims this audacious unknown invented the idea of ...

Exams evolved from ancient Chinese imperial tests to modern standardized assessments, with Henry Fischel often credited for ...

Actor Dick Terhune will bring Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” to life in a one-man performance at the Palace Theater.

Do you know what Thiruvalluvar had a gut instinct about centuries ago? Well, it was the gut itself. Our gut is a universe of ...

Why this significant example of early television should have been in Falkirk is not fully known, which allowed a certain ...

The "radical concept" was invented in Rugby by scientist Dennis Gabor, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his idea in 1971. Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1900 and developed an interest ...

Jukebox sales fell in the 1950s, partly because transistor radios gave people an affordable way to listen to music at home.

The origins of America's beloved potato chip remain shrouded in layers of myth and conflicting claims, despite extensive ...