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You know Ralphie Parker’s plight by heart, but can you spot the many flubs in Bob Clark’s ‘A Christmas Story’?

Everyone thought Pleasant Rowland’s idea was terrible. Thankfully, she didn’t listen. Now there’s a new American Girl movie in development, making it the perfect time to read up on what you might not have known about these beloved dolls.

It's Barbie's world—and there are plenty of themed gifts to go around.

This holiday season, think pink with these incredible Barbie gifts for fans of the toy and Greta Gerwig's recent blockbuster.

From a profane parrot to an exploding corpse to swapped (and dropped) bodies, the funerals on this list went terribly awry.

If you want to make the London Eye part of your British vacation, be prepared to wait.

If you want to get the full tourist experience, waiting in line is unavoidable.

Good news! Wearing yoga pants may inspire you to go to the gym more often.

Got a New Year’s resolution to go to the gym more often? Here are a few tips to help you stick to your goals.

The winter solstice marks the return of longer days.

Whether you’re a fan of winter or wish it would go away, here are 25 things to note about the winter solstice, a.k.a. the shortest day of the year.

Several health ailments hindered the Tudors.

The powerful royal family was not immune to the many illnesses of the 16th century.

René Magritte’s surrealist masterpiece is his most recognized painting—but you may never get to see the real thing.

Here are 10 colorful phrases of yore to use the day after you partied a tad too passionately.

Hershey Kisses Christmas Commercial 2021

Hershey's Kisses’s “Christmas Bells” is one of the longest-running Christmas commercials.

Dickens’s unprecedented celebrity made him the most popular novelist of his century—but the author of Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, and dozens of other works was more than just a writer.

There's no shortage of gift ideas for movie lovers.

From addictive trivia games to portable projectors, here are 18 brilliant gifts for movie lovers who know their stuff.

The toy giant best known for assembling G.I. Joe once owned Death Row Records.

There’s hope for your New Year’s resolution past January.

We celebrate the same holidays every year, but how much do we actually know about these annual traditions? And how much of what we think we know is actually true?

Lady Anne Mackintosh, (1723–1787), Jacobite of the Clan Farquharson.

Women like Flora MacDonald, Anne Mackintosh, Isabella MacDuff, and more made their mark on Scottish history.

Secret societies and dark cabals? You'll find plenty of them in these tomes.

From murder mysteries to secret societies and more, the best dark academia novels from Donna Tartt and other authors capture the macabre in the most unlikely of places.