By Emily Brayshaw The iconic feathered showgirl was born amid the chaos of the first world war, when the wealthy, global ...

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A range of documentaries for BBC Two and iPlayer includes a new historical crime series with Lucy Worsley and a sixth series ...

TIL Quaker Oats Co. fully funded the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory movie to promote a new line of candy.

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Awarded 118 times since 1901, the Nobel Prize for Literature has brought sudden international fame to writers from all around ...

The Jefferson Educational Society's Global Summit XVII opened in September with Barack Obama. See the speakers coming up in ...

On a cold autumn evening in Moscow, Alexandra was headed to a cinema, hoping to escape reality for a few hours by taking in a ...