15 Facts About ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884’
A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.
A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.
By the late 1700s, laborers adopted the insult to refer to workers who wouldn’t join a strike, a union, or take part in organized labor and undermined their fellow workers.
From turtle mating to what really turns big cats on, animal sex can be a lot weirder (and funnier) than you probably expected.
‘The Vampyre’ is largely forgotten today, but it upended centuries of vampiric lore 80 years before Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’—and from its spooky beginnings to its scandalous misattribution, its history was as dramatic as fiction.
The shape of an animal’s pupils is a clue to its place in the food chain.
These daring dames ventured into the underworld of contraband liquor.
Amy Winehouse recorded just two albums during her lifetime, but her singular talent was enough to quickly earn her legendary status.
The burger giant is shutting down the beverage taps.
We’re currently living in the year 1725, not 2023. At least, that’s what adherents of the Phantom Time Hypothesis would have you believe. The historical conspiracy theory alleges that the years spanning from 614 to 911 CE never actually happened.
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“10-4” isn’t any quicker than saying “OK.” But it is a storied trucker tradition.
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Get your home and lawn ready for the season with these 13 must-have fall cleanup tools designed for outdoor chores.
Kidney transplants my one day get an assist from porcine vessels.
The milk has curdled? Must be a brownie. Someone drank all your wine? Your cellar might be infested with clurichauns.
Director John Landis wrote the script for ‘An American Werewolf in London’ when he was just a teenager—but for years, no one wanted to make the movie.
When a truck’s brakes fail, a runaway ramp is sometimes the one thing preventing disaster.
From ‘cakewalk’ to ‘no can do,’ the origins of these common idioms and sayings are surprisingly dark.
The words ‘fall’ and ‘autumn’ appeared around the same time in Great Britain, but only one of the seasonal names is still used there today.
Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a single adult cell—and raised a lot of questions about the future of human cloning.
Try spicing your fall with a few of these rustic charmers, drawn from the pages of Washington Irving.
The North American parrots vanished mysteriously in the early 20th century. Now scientists are closer to solving their disappearance.
The birth of our universe happened at least 13 billion years ago—and you may have seen it on TV.
His Airness once lectured McDonald’s employees on good customer service: “They expect to be treated as a guest in your home.”