David Prowse was most famous as the man who played Darth Vader. Although of course James Earl Jones did the voice. And Sebastian Shaw was the face we saw when the mask came off. And fight choreographer Bob Anderson did the lightsaber fights. And sound designer Ben Burtt did the menacing ...
After President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, the economic state of the country seemed hopeful: Americans were beginning to emerge from the financial wreckage of the Great Depression, and unemployment rates dropped more than 10% in just a few years. In 1937, the nation was hit b...
"Meo's barber shop was always one of the few older businesses to survive in Catskill and is now the oldest and longest running business on Main Street," the Greene County Legislature said about Meo. "There is no double that the reason for their longevity has to do with...
William J. A. Bailey dissolved radium in water to create an energy drink he named RadiThor, which was just one piece ofthe American frenzyover the newly discovered element. Industrialist Eben McBurney Byers was rumored to have consumed 1,400 bottles to ease back and joint pain; eventually, ...