It's been revealed that Stephen King never cashed his royalty cheque for the adaptation of his novel, Shawshank Redemption.

Meet Mario Rigby and hear about his epic journey across Africa on foot, from Cape Town to Cairo. Read the story on Marriott Bonvoy Traveler.

Though she laid bare the false claim of women's intellectual inferiority, Alice Lee failed to apply the same logic to race

For much of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a chess-playing automaton known as the “Turk” drew huge crowds at exhibitions across Europe and the United States.

Panoramic tour on the app shows stacks of shining gold bars, each weighing around 13kg and valued at about £350,000

It’s a story about alcohol. But it’s also one about roads.

The saxophonist was one of the coffee chain's early investors.

large crocodilian reptile

book by Roald Dahl

Horizon Zero Dawn, the new game from the makers of Killzone, was the sort of noscript that had Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony Computer Entertainment's head of world wide studios, nervous. It was, he...

Scottish surgeon

On June 19th, 1905 the nation's first stand-alone movie theater had set up the first commercial cinema enterprise offering patrons a look at "moving pictures" in a small storefront on Smithfield Street.

Christmas with the presence of snow, either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day

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American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 21,000-mile, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ends in Tierra del Fuego.

1959 comedy film directed by Billy Wilder

Is it true that groups of lemmings jump off seaside cliffs to their deaths?

Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city located 30 miles (50 km) northeast of modern-day Mexico City. The city, which was designated a UNESCO World