American songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer (1879-1959)

Art has long been identified, even romanticized, as an ideal way to launder money. There’s a thread of logic here: the art world accommodates anonymous, high-dollar buyers and the industry allows large cash deals. For racketeers, it’s difficult to conjure…

transatlantic liner

Who knows how to play with money better than billionaires? A Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian Liu certainly does, as the taxi-driver turned mega art

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October 2000, in Europe on 24 November 2000, and in Australia on 30 November…

law granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

Somali model, author, actress, activist

French mathematician (1811-1832)

1886 American wedding

Have you ever wondered why beekeepers wear white? Is it to see when a bee lands on them, to stay cool when its hot or is it a fashion trend that has stuck?The answer is simple and evolutionary. In ...

species of bird

The Bond movie franchise has provided many memory moments in skiing, Roger Moore’s stunt double skiing off a cliff and opening a Union Jack parachute in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, Daniel  Craig driving a planes across the slopes in the Tirol for 2015’s…

act of obstructing the work of the United States Congress or one of its committees

It was a life that included a successful film career, a highly publicized scandal, an arrest and imprisonment in a fascist prison, and an escape to Switzerland—all in addition to escaping from the Titanic.

How one of the most recognized names in American industry—Henry Ford—closely aligned himself with Hitler and the Nazi party in the late 1930s.

stagehands in traditional Japanese theatre, who dress all in black.

French actor

Usually, the fluidity of liquids is considered to make the temperature field uniform, when it is heated, because of the heat convection, but there is something

reform to British and Commonwealth succession laws

Police say at least one rat slipped through a hole in the back of an ATM in northeastern India and started eating. By the time it finished, more than US$19,000 in bills were shredded.

There was apparently a language mix up