If you grew up in the ’80s, there is a good chance you can remember the catchy Fraggle Rock theme song. The catchy opening jingle wasn’t the only interesting aspect of the show. Fraggle Rock was arguably one of the best Jim Henson productions ever. It was even better than […]
You may never have heard of Benny Binion, but odds are you’re familiar with some of his work. So, who was he? For starters, he was one of the pioneers in Las Vegas gaming and founder of the World Series of Poker. While Binion was said to be one of […]
Forget the movie Apocalypto – the real Mayans of pre-Colombian America were more than stone pyramids and bloody rituals. From about 200 until the so-called “Mayan collapse” around 900 CE, the Maya people were at the height of their influence. They were one of many civilizations – like the Olmecs […]
Whitey Bulger’s life played out like a Martin Scorsese film, and certainly, the legendary mobster and his exploits have been well documented in movies and television alike. The eccentric gangster grew up on the streets of Boston in the early 1940s and was only a teenager when he turned to […]
Humans have been around for around 350,000 years, but it has only been a short time since they began to group together in what we call civilizations. In all of our history on this planet, humans have only civilized themselves for approximately 10,000 years thanks to the development of agriculture, […]
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant have a few things in common; not only were they popular actors during Hollywood’s Golden Age, but they both used a way of speaking known as the Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accent. Although Hepburn was American and Grant was from England, you wouldn’t know it by […]
Depending on who’s doing the talking, those who have given away intelligence about the military and security infrastructure of the United States have been called spies, heroes, and traitors. But knowing the historical contexts around such leaks can help us understand why the leakers did what they did, and whether […]
The romance of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII had it all – passion, intrigue, and betrayal. Anne was neither the first nor last of Henry’s wives, but she remains the most enigmatic, and their relationship the most tumultuous. Small details about their life together reveal just how over the top […]
If there’s one member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that pretty much everyone in the world could name without trouble, it’s J. Edgar Hoover. Best known as the country’s most famous G-man, Hoover’s work as director of the FBI began in 1924, when Hoover took control, it was simply […]
Historic landmarks have been attracting tourists for hundreds – in some cases, thousands – of years. Monuments like the Roman Colosseum, the Great Wall of China, and the Eiffel Tower are so distinct that you can probably identify them just by their silhouettes – but what do you really know […]
