How Carole Lombard Became Hollywood’s First Casualty of World War II

Carole Lombard came to Hollywood from the Midwest at the age of 7 and was making Westerns at Fox by age 9. The…

Ann Dvorak and NOT Raquel Torres on the Beach

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The Broadway Melody (1929)

At the Gleason Music Publishing Company, several acts rehearse their musical numbers, with Eddie Kearns (Charles King) performing his new song “Broadway Melody”…

Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil

NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the “human computer” who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing,…

With Das Boot, Wolfgang Petersen Directed The Single Greatest Submarine Movie Ever Made

Television Horror Shows By  Aug. 16, 2022 5:28 pm EST Submarine films were a cliché-ridden subgenre when Wolfgang Petersen's "Das Boot" surfaced in…

Preserved blue whale’s heart, Harsh Goenka shares picture from museum

Blue whales are one of the most precious animals because they are the largest and humanity has been connecting with them for centuries.…

Before Björk, There Was the Last Incan Princess

S he claimed to be the final descendant of the last Incan Emperor, Atahualpa — a claim the Peruvian government backed in 1946…

The Zoot Suit Riots and Wartime Los Angeles

Top image: A group of Mexican American “zoot suiters” arrested during the Zoot Suit Riots, June 9, 1943. Courtesy of the Library of…

Ninety years ago, the Hunter brothers spent 23 days in flight without landing

Ninety years ago today, the four Hunter brothers began their journey to break the world record for Duration in an airplane with a…

Layka: War Dog Honored

Dogs have been used in times of war since before the invention of gunpowder. Romans used them to charge into battle and attack…