He left for the bright lights of New York City, where he worked as a film editor for NBC News ... as Vice President of Production for Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation in Chicago.

There are time-honoured rituals, some shrouded in secrecy, and a series of carefully planned events that are likely to take ...

The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties.

They've campaigned against the slaughter of chickens and the exploitation of killer whales. Activists have now turned their ...

So pervasive was it that as late as 1888, the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wanting to debunk it in the name of reason (not to mention common sense), felt compelled to publish a ...

When The Great Gatsby was printed in 1925, critics roasted it resoundingly. “One finishes Great Gatsby with a feeling of ...

Animal rights group Peta has written to the Cambridge Dictionary requesting a change to what they call the "unfair" ...