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Edinburgh Castle is an iconic part of the city's skyline.

Edinburgh Castle has loomed above the city since the 1100s, surviving centuries of turmoil to retain its perch above Scotland’s capital.

They look docile and sluggish in those popular nature documentaries, but hippopotamuses have a violent side.

The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber.

During the 1800s, roughly 100,000 enslaved people sought freedom on the Underground Railroad, which stretched from the American South to Canada.

For employees at Disneyland Paris’s Phantom Manor in 2016, the attraction’s harmless spookiness turned genuinely macabre.

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway face off in The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

'The Devil Wears Prada' proved that Anne Hathaway’s range extended beyond fairy tale princesses, established Meryl Streep as one of cinema's all-time greatest villains, and taught us all the difference between blue and cerulean.

From how long a "hoax" like the Apollo 11 moon landing could actually stay a secret to the conspiracy theory involving Queen Elizabeth I, here are the actual facts you need to know about conspiracy theories.

You may not remember some of these songs from the films for which they were recorded; you may have forgotten about some of these songs (or movies) entirely. But each one captures a very specific moment in the life cycle of the films, the artists, the deca

Great news for anyone who considers themselves to be young at heart: It turns out summer camp isn’t just for kids anymore.

Daniel Keyes’s 'Flowers for Algernon' is a poignant science-fiction novella that has won critical acclaim and popularity around the globe.

One state has banned consumer fireworks outright. And in 2012, San Diego accidentally set off all of theirs at once.

Beyoncé Knowles performs during the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards in Edinburgh, Scotland.

From Beyoncé to Baby Yoda, the past 20 years have been jam-packed with moments that will long live in the memory of pop culture enthusiasts.

Bette Greene’s 1973 debut novel, about a 12-year-old Jewish girl in rural Arkansas who befriends a German prisoner of war in the early 1940s, was embraced by critics and readers alike, and it’s still a mainstay on school reading lists.

No, William Shakespeare probably wasn't secretly the Earl of Oxford.

Even devout bibliophiles might believe some of these misconceptions about Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, and William Shakespeare.

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Here are 15 quotes celebrating summer vibes from famous musicians, writers, artists, scientists, and more.

Brothers Russell and Ron Mael in Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers (2021).

Over the past 50 years, brothers Ron and Russell Mael—a.k.a. musical duo Sparks—have been on the forefront of popular music trends, from glam rock to power pop to electronic music to new wave and beyond. Now they're the subject of Edgar Wright's first doc

An illustration from the September 17, 1899 issue of Le Petit Journal depicting the events on the Medusa raft.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And sometimes, when survival is at stake, that means human flesh is on the menu.

Even if you have millions of dollars to spend, you may have trouble getting your hands on one of 2021's most expensive cars.

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Fifty years ago, Congress consolidated all of America's passenger train service into one entity: Amtrak. Here are a few facts about the nationwide rail network.

Let's hope these two lovebirds didn't follow any of the dubious sex advice making the rounds during the Victorian era.

Victorians had many manuals and advice books that discuss sex with surprising frankness. Here are 11 bits of Victorian sex wisdom—good, bad, and otherwise—published between 1837 and 1901.