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All it takes is a slight curve in the glass.

Katharine Burdekin wrote one of the first dystopian novels, but her authorship wasn't revealed until well after her death.

Hundreds of letters, manuscripts, and other documents belonging to the Founding Father and his family are going up for auction.

Since the days of yore, tales of imaginary creatures have been spread by storytellers, myth-makers, and drunk guys lost in the woods. But not all are as literary as the Bandersnatch or as hairy as the Yeti—some non-existent creatures, like the ones mentio

It's like a Little Free Library, but for food.

These forest-dwelling creatures weren't discovered by western scientists for centuries.

When two highly paid creative visionaries work together, things don’t always go smoothly.

If you're turning 40 this year, you have something in common with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Saturday Night Fever, and the Chia Pet. You also got to grow up with these words, dated by first citation to 1977 in the Oxford English Dictionary.

It’s an error you see a lot these days, and it happens for a variety of reasons.

Like a delicious t-shirt cannon.

Cherry Garcia, "Full House," The Simpsons, Prozac...

The wife of the president was just that—until a gun-toting geologist named Lou Hoover moved into the East Wing.

Feeling over committed? Need a better way to say "no"? Aside from using “don’t" instead of “can’t,” here are eight fun and old-timey ways you can say, “No way.”

Party on, Wayne!

Truman Capote at his Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel New York, with 'The Washington Post' publisher Katharine Graham. Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images

Forget the spinach dip and noisemakers, these parties are all about decadence and excess.

It predates Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore's on-screen exchange, and the copy machine.

Almost 450 years ago, even Queen Elizabeth I got in on the act by organizing the very first national lottery in English history—and perhaps the first state-sanctioned lottery in the English-speaking world.