Personalities

Gloria Vanderbilt and custody battle over her trust fund

Long before Gloria Vanderbilt's name was on the back of her jeans or her son Anderson Cooper broke the news,…

55 years ago

Jesuit Order: How Catholicism Ruled the World!

Founded in 1540, the Jesuits were originally a militaristic order of monks convened by the Catholic Church to travel the…

55 years ago

Photo by Che Guevara Explaining an Iconic Image

Taken on March 5, 1960 in Havana, Cuba, by photographer Alberto Korda, this famous photo of Latin American revolutionary Che…

55 years ago

The Murder of Vincent Chin and How It Changed America.

Lillie Chin (mother of Vincent Chin, who was clubbed to death by two white men in June 1982) breaks down…

55 years ago

This Day in History: The Destruction of Herostratus and the Temple of Artemis, One of the Seven Wonders of the World

356 BC In the 4th century BC, one of the most notorious arsonists of antiquity, Herostratus, set fire to the…

55 years ago

1904: King C. Gillette Patents The Gillette Razor Blade

King C. Gillette's parents must have had high hopes when they named him. Luckily he lived up to the hype…

55 years ago

Who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.?

doctor Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights protesters from Selma To Montgomery, Alabama in front of…

55 years ago

At that time, Marie Curie was rejected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences because she was a woman

It is probably hard to believe that a two-time Nobel Prize winner for her work in physics and chemistry, a…

55 years ago

The History of the Word “Ok/OK” and Why the World Uses It

“Ok” is one of those words that are part of our vernacular that we don’t even think about, but  where did…

55 years ago

John Keats: poet, father of romanticism that reached its peak when he was young

During his lifetime, John Keats was far from the most important poet of the Romantic movement. In fact, he had only…

55 years ago