The necessity of coffee: In 16th century Constantinople, not providing your wife with enough coffee was grounds for divorce
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of
“Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley requested LSD on his deathbed, a request granted by his wife
Alice Guy-Blache: The story of the first female cinema pioneer and film director
A dance to die for: The mysterious phenomenon of Medieval Europe that drove people to dance until collapse …
J. R. R. Tolkien named the kind and protective hobbit Samwise Gamgee after a pioneering British surgeon
Peter Freuchen, a Danish explorer, writer, and Nazi Resistance fighter who amputated his frostbitten toes himself without anesthesia
In WWII, the 20-year-old George H. W. Bush was only one of group of nine airmen who escaped fate worse than death
The tragedy of Elizabeth Shoumatoff’s unfinished portrait of President Franklin Roosevelt
The truth about that Indian maharaja who used Rolls-Royces for garbage collection
