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When you envision icons from the Harlem Renaissance, a vision of famous poets, jazz musicians, and bodacious actresses in banana ...
From Buenos Aires to Bangkok, Montreal to Moscow, nearly every taxi driver in the world understands "OK." It's a gift from American English that's spread across the globe in less than 200 years.
Writer Christopher Isherwood famously moved to Berlin in 1929, and local theatre Metropol (formerly the Neues Schauspielhaus) ...
The marvelous Eise Eisinga Planetarium, the world’s oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world, dating from 1781, ...
After noticing that the practice of documenting war was fading, the veteran aimed to capture insights from battles and make ...
Black Sabbath "have lost our brother", says band's co-founder, weeks after farewell gig in their home city Birmingham.
War movies like Cross of Iron and Jarhead disappointed at the box office but became bona fide cult classics, with audiences embracing them over time.
Some of history's most important and decisive battles have taken place at sea. Major engagements, including the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Midway, are well known. But there are many other ...