Jeff Belanger - Historical facts about Christmas: With Jeff Belanger, Alan R. Warren. Jeff Belanger discusses the real history about Christmas.
Franklin commandedErebusand Crozier was given command of theTerror. Dan Snow wrangles with a Python! He talks to comedy legend Michael Palin about his new book, Erebus The Story of a Ship. The book tells the devastating true story of the Franklin expeditions to find the Northwest Passage, an...
First things first—let’s talk about Drew Barrymore’s breast size. For those who don’t know, Drew is no stranger to the spotlight. She’s the product of a Hollywood family legacy, with several famous relatives, including her godfather, Steven Spielberg. Drew grew up in the industry, st...
respectively. She further demonstrated her range and her gifts for rendering complex emotional states andseamlesscharacterization in such roles as a modern-day actress portraying a Victorian woman of mystery inThe French Lieutenant’s Woman(1981), a factory-worker-turned-activist inSilkwood(1983), and...
Many Protestants and Roman Catholics alike assumed that her self-presentation was deceptive, but Elizabeth managed to keep her inwardconvictionsto herself, and inreligionas in much else they have remained something of a mystery. There is with Elizabeth a continual gap between a dazzling surface and...
(1958). Sophisticated films of the mystery-thriller type, such asAlfred Hitchcock’sPsycho(1960) andRoman Polanski’sRepulsion(1965), continued to be made. Over time the horror filmgenrecame to be represented by several subgenres, including films about the supernatural, such asThe Exorcist(1973...
discovery and the computer age. The abundance of these scientists, mathematicians, economists, anthropologists, musicians, and artists—among them a dozen Nobel laureates—prompted Laura Fermi, writer and wife of Italian American physicistEnrico Fermi, tospeculateabout “the mystery of the Hungary ...
There is no answer to the mystery of Alice’s success. Many explanations have been suggested, but, like the Mad Hatter’s riddle (“The riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all”), they are no more than afterthoughts. The book is not an allegory; it has no hidden meaning...
Elizabeth was the eldest child of Edward Barrett Moulton (later Edward Moulton Barrett). Most of her girlhood was spent at a country house within sight of theMalvern Hills, in Worcestershire, where she was extraordinarily happy. At the age of 15, however, she fell seriously ill, probably as...
“The Fall of the House of Usher” “The Masque of the Red Death” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” “The Mystery of Marie Roget” “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” “The Pit and the Pendulum” “The Premature Burial” “The Purloined Letter” ...