Letter Walt Whitman Wrote for Dying Soldier Discovered in National Archives
The poet regularly visited Civil War soldiers in the hospital.
The poet regularly visited Civil War soldiers in the hospital.
The Tennessee chain where you buy burgers by the sackful has had a devoted following since the '30s.
Get clean in style.
In his personality test, Hoffman talked about his acting career and aspirations as well as his difficulties in Hollywood.
They may not have been able to articulate it, but people have been trying to get their eyebrows on fleek for thousands of years.
If you were born in 1991, not only do you have something in common with the World Wide Web, the Honeycrisp apple, and the Jerry Springer show, you got to grow up with these words that have their first Oxford English Dictionary citations in 1991.
Catch some Zs in style.
1. If you’re a weatherman in the Air Force, you’re probably a battle-hardened commando.
The how-to beauty video didn't start with YouTube. Here are a few vintage videos that taught women how to put the best possible face forward.
Tiger, moon, and buttonhole are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to words you probably didn’t know could be used as verbs—so why not try dropping some of these into conversation?
The U.S. Navy is the largest navy in the world, and it is steeped in lore and tradition.
Billy Joel was not amused.
The doings and sayings of some of history's most beloved world-changing women.
One travel company is making sure that fans of the Masterpiece series don’t really have to say “goodbye.”
Officials in Hamburg hope the move will help cut down on waste.
Some claim a lofty title due to madness, a few through a long-lost family link, and others just paid for one over the Internet.
Mae West spent her entire career testing the limits of what was considered acceptable in entertainment.
Who can resist the allure of cold, hard cash? For that matter, who can resist it when the finished product is only a minute or two long?
Happy 100th!
Netflix has announced they’ll be hiring four “grammasters" to hang out on film and TV sets in Europe and the Middle East and take photographs of their adventures.
When there’s no kitchen to be had, resourceful chefs can transform their cars into one.
These animals wanted to break free—and they did, if only for a little while, leading authorities on chases that were thrilling and, sometimes, adorable.
The six-week trial cost five times as much as traditional landscaping would have.