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Amazon's recent series starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen isn't the first time Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch' has been adapted. Or attempted.

Rebecca Pahle




By Carl Van Vechten // Library of Congress // Public Domain // Wikimedia Commons

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go,” is just one of Langston Hughes's most memorable quotes.

Jennifer M Wood










Mathew Brady, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

You can quote 'The Raven.' But how well do you know Edgar Allan Poe's quirky sense of humor and code-cracking abilities?

Ethan Trex








NASA, Getty Images

From the first manned Moon landing to Monty Python, here are 50 things marking a half-century on this planet (and beyond).

Jennifer M Wood, Colin Ainsworth