A GOTHIC SETTING Bram Stoker arrived at Mrs Veazey’s guesthouse at 6 Royal Crescent, Whitby, at the end of July 1890. As the business manager of actor Henry Irving, Stoker had just completed a gruelling…

Here are some of the most important inventions of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, from the cotton machine to the camera. 1) Phone The phone is a tool that converts voice and sound signals…

Surgeons have removed a kidney weighing 7.4 kilograms (16.3 pounds) — the equivalent size of two newborn babies — from a patient in India. It is thought to be the heaviest kidney ever removed in the country…

Snoop Dogg is a big fan of P.B.R.s, and we don’t mean the beer. In a recently interview on The Howard Stern Show, the rapper revealed that his staff includes what he called a “P. B. R.:…

Throughout history, man has been extremely creative when it comes to styling themselves in terms of their hair, their clothes, and their bodies in general. From wild hair colors, to artistic makeup, to eccentric piercings, people…

A female high school athlete who didn’t qualify for a track event because two boys who identify as girls ran faster filed a complaint Monday with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. “No…

In the 1960s, an informed but naïve undergraduate, I was walking across the campus of the University of Pennsylvania with the Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Prof. Charles C. Price. He told me that he…

These work crews go to various sites each day, sometimes even during the weekends. Their work includes scrubbing graffiti off walls, cleaning homeless camps, and many more chores. A payment of $15 is ensured along…

Jeffrey Epstein kept a bizarre painting of Bill Clinton on prominent display in his New York townhouse, it was reported on Thursday. Epstein’s $77 million (£63.5m) home in the Upper East Side – the largest private home…

Human beings are endowed with extraordinary powers. The only problem is that few people know and can activate these powers or gifts from nature. To understand the complexity of things and to understand how these secrets…