Taking a Page from the Billionaire's Book

The American Girl Collection introduced the Girls of Many Lands series in 2005. Each story told of a twelve year old girl living in a different time period in a different part of the world. Each

at 12:54 AM Tweet Mary McLeod Bethune (Library of Congress) Read more about Mary McLeod Bethune here. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and ...

26: Sportscaster Brent Musburger is 74. Steel guitar player Gates Nichols of Confederate Railroad is 69. Drummer Garry Peterson of The Guess Who is 68. Singer Stevie Nicks is 65. Actor Philip Michael Thomas ("Miami Vice") is 64. Actress Pam Grier is ...

By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week. Preliminary tests do not ...

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, tells the story of a monster created with parts collected from random cadavers. The creature stands eight feet tall due to an inability to integrate all the necessary components into a standard humanoid form ...

Designed by a French architect, St Mary's Basilica Church has a vaulted tower and arches decorated with Gothic paint | EPS The only church in Karnataka that has been elevated to the status of a minor basilica is now a landmark in Bangalore. The St ...

Bay Area scientists believe they have discovered the Typhoid Mary of the frog world: a flat, feral creature that carried a deadly fungus from Africa to California's ponds and puddles through global trading. Genetic analysis revealed that eight of ...

Three months later and the Fringe universe is still thriving. Fans are writing fanfiction and creating art, and the first official tie-in novel, The Zodiac Paradox, comes out this month. In The Zodiac Paradox, Christa Faust transports the reader to ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, a Republican who was appointed to the position by George W. Bush, told CBS News on Saturday that he would have handled the situation in Benghazi the same way that the Obama administration did last September.