Confederate General Stonewall Jackson – champion of African-American literacy
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
Bombshell Mae West did not begin her career in films until she was almost 40, became second highest paid person in America
The cold-blooded Cocaine Godmother of Colombia invented the motorcycle drive-by shooting that killed her
Chloroform, arsenic, and suspicious family doctors: Lady poisoners of the Victorian era
“To beard or not to beard” was the stance of Joseph Palmer, the farmer and war veteran who was sent to jail for his facial hair
In fifth-century Europe, socks were usually worn by “holy” people to symbolize purity
American doctors earned $40 million for whiskey prescriptions during the prohibition
Princess Leia’s revolutionary hairstyle was an homage to George Lucas’s passions
J. R. R. Tolkien named the kind and protective hobbit Samwise Gamgee after a pioneering British surgeon
