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Three talented sisters from New Orleans who became music sensations during the depression. Enter the Boswell Sisters.
A man whose singing voice can create miracles, the theft of a magical mill, and a sorceress who steals the sun and the moon. You've entered the legendary Finnish epic - The Kalevala.
The mythical New England town of Arkham, an ancient horror discovered in Antartica, and the sunken alien city of R'lyeh. Welcome to the world of H.P. Lovecraft
In between the wars, in the Weimar Republic, was the utopian dream of Walter Gropius - The Bauhaus.
In 1897, in Woking England, a meteor crashes to Earth. And so begins the War Of The Worlds.
There's a creature leading a double life inside many urban homes - your garden-variety House Cat.
Where can you find Yves Montand, Oscar Wilde, Balzac and Jim Morrison hanging together? Up on a Parisian hill in Père Lachaise.
When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then it's the Age of Aquarius ... and the rock musical HAIR.
From a soot-covered piece of paper to streaming digital audio on Spotify. The over 150-year history of sound recording.
In 17th Century Amsterdam, an excommunicated Jewish lens crafter formulates one of the most radical philosophies of his or our time. Enter the world of Spinoza.
One of the most famous and scandalous women of her time, the 19th Century phenomenon known as Lillie Langtry.
How to classify folk and fairy tales? The over 100-year-old Aarne-Thompson Classification System has you covered.
I ride a G.S. scooter with my hair cut neat, I wear my wartime coat in the wind and sleet. So say the Mods.
When you're a private eye who drives a white AC Cobra, with your pet ocelot Bruce by your side, then naturally you'd go by the name - Honey West.
A secluded ancient settlement in the Aegean Sea, where an ancient order is cut off from the modern world. Is it Themyscira? No, it's Mount Athos.
A black Givenchy dress, an updo hairstyle with a tiara, and an impossibly long cigarette holder. Presenting actress, activist and style muse Audrey Hepburn.
Which multi-media star of the 1930s knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
Five times farther from the Sun than Earth, lies an ancient Roman deity of thunder - the planet Jupiter.
An entrepreneur in the purest sense of the word, who brought the notion to the marketplace, that beauty is power - Helena Rubenstein.
Co-opted by graphic artists and television commercials, the Periodic Table of the Elements finally gets its due.