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He invented a cut of dress known as the “princess” line, where the waist seam is removed to emphasise vertical lines, and which is still used by designers today. And, most significantly of all ...
For the longest time, people who wanted to learn how to drive had to do it using a stick shift or a manual transmission. Before the turn of the century, most cars came with this type of transmission.
Widely regarded as the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin is one of those historical greats who is known simply by his last name. He has not one, but three museums dedicated to his legacy ...
Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...
Learn More. A new study finds that artificial intelligence can create meme captions that are funnier, more creative, and more shareable than those made by humans on average. However, when it comes ...
Could it really be true? That of all of college basketball's urban myths, one of New York City's five boroughs is actually the birthplace of filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket? Before all ...
Could it really be true? That of all of college basketball’s urban myths, one of New York’s five boroughs is actually the birthplace of filling out an NCAA Tournament bracket? Before all those ...
J. D. Vance doesn’t look like himself. In recent days, memes have spread across social media in which the vice president’s face has been Photoshopped to give him cartoonishly chubby cheeks.
The mountaineer who invented the five-toed climbing shoe tragically ... The South Tyrolean once told Italian media how he learned to love walking barefoot while growing up in the mountains ...
If you ask Google who invented the toaster many results will still turn up MacMasters’ name. But, according to the BBC, MacMasters was actually a student in 2012, not an eccentric 19th-century ...
The New Yorker editor, Susan Morrison shares the definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show, SNL. It goes behind the scenes of Michaels ...