Take-out restaurants existed in ancient Rome and were called “thermopolia”
Digital reconstruction reveals an 18th century Scottish woman condemned as a witch–and she has “quite a kind face”
Before the Cultural Revolution, many Iranian women followed fashion trends, wore makeup, and favored elaborate hair styles
When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century”
One of the last autographs John Lennon signed was on December 8, 1980, the day he died, and it was at the request of his murderer
Edith Head, Hollywood’s legendary costume designer, created dresses for everyone from Barbara Stanwyck to Grace Kelly
Why questions linger about Natalie Wood’s 1981 drowning death off Catalina Island
The shower scene in Hitchcock’s “Psycho” demanded seven “really difficult” days from Janet Leigh
Vinnie Ream won the competition to create a sculpture of Lincoln, but whispers and doubts shadowed her efforts at carving a “man of sorrow”
In WWII, Soviet partisans hid in the Odessa Catacombs, which stretch for thousands of miles below the city
