“The Old Man and the Pool”: After Ava Gardner went for a swim at his Havana house, Ernest Hemingway issued an unusual edict News
Details of Elvis Presley’s divorce from Priscilla, full signatures included, emerge in 12-page document going up for auction News
When John Gotti ordered the murder of his boss, “Big Paul” Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House, it became “the hit of the century” Strangeness
When Athelhampton House’s owner died in 1598, his four daughters equally divided the manor and it remained divided for 250 years Interiors
Harriet, the Galapagos tortoise, lived to be 175, was reportedly collected by Charles Darwin in 1835 Featured News
Kalyazin Bell Tower is a symbol of Russia before communism: a lonely bell tower on a man-made island in a man-made lake Abandoned Spaces
The Doll Family, four dwarf siblings who found success in Hollywood, not only in “The Wizard of Oz” but in another classic, “Freaks” Glamour
Hattie McDaniel of “Gone With the Wind,” the first African-American to win an Oscar, battled discrimination even at the Academy Awards ceremony News