Flapper shoes: The footwear that declared cultural war on Victorian apparel
Clark Gable never recovered from the tragic death of his wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash
A crazy if unconsummated 1965 love triangle starring Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, and Bob Dylan ended tragically
The year 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” saw floods, food riots, gorgeous sunsets, and “Frankenstein”
During the California Gold Rush, an English would-be prospector published and sold 100,000 copies of his satirical Miners’ Ten Commandments
New scientific findings from Antarctica a game-changer in how we perceive conditions that are needed to support life
The Yakhchāl was an ancient Persian “refrigerator” that stored food and even ice long before electricity was invented
The 1920s perpetrators of the “perfect crime”: Leopold and Loeb
From Avenger and Bond Girl in the 1960s to “Game of Thrones” today: Diana Rigg
In 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his flapper bride, Zelda, shook up a sleepy Connecticut shore town with wild parties
