During WWII, Veronica Lake changed her trademark peek-a-boo look to encourage factory workers to adopt safer hair styles …
The real “Sound of Music”: Moody Maria married a man 25 years her senior, the family lost their wealth before WWII, and she sold her autobiography to Hollywood for $9,000
They slowly grow and they slowly die: A Bristlecone pine was found to be an astonishing 5,065 years old
Bombshell Mae West did not begin her career in films until she was almost 40, became second highest paid person in America
Herman Kahn: The physicist, nuclear-war strategist, and Cold War “scenario planner” who inspired Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”
When Thanksgiving resembled Halloween and “Ragamuffin Day” parades of costumed children mocked the poor