In 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his flapper bride, Zelda, shook up a sleepy Connecticut shore town with wild parties
In 1980, chemist Glenn Seaborg solved a centuries-old problem in alchemy and turned a non-precious metal into gold
Starring a working divorced mom, the classic “Miracle on 34th Street” was progressive for its time–and featured an 8-year-old Natalie Wood who secretly did believe in Santa Claus
After 150 years the French Hospital closed, it had offered medical care during Los Angeles’s most dangerous, disease-ridden years
The Areni-1 shoe: An Armenian cave yielded the oldest leather footwear in the world
Works of art you can actually walk through: Monet’s gardens at Giverny are his “other” masterpiece
Aubrey Beardsley and his “morbid imagination” was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era
The children on the milk carton: Before AMBER alerts, authorities searched for missing kids through a national carton campaign
The Grand Mosque in Paris, under Si Kaddour Benghabrit, saved hundreds of Jews during WWII
The Sicilian bar in “The Godfather” where Michael Corleone learns Apollonia’s name still open for business
