Joan Crawford was born Billie Cassin, but her name was changed to Lucille LeSueur when she was young and her mother remarried. When she embarked on a film career as a teenager, film studio executives didn't like her last ...Read More

In 1969 the Mexican Anti-Defamation Committee claimed the Frito Bandito character's "sneaky thief" image was damaging to the Mexican-American culture. Consequently, the executives at Frito Lay were forced to revaluate the ...Read More

The phrase "guinea pig" originated when a tax was imposed on powder for Whigs in England to help pay for the war with Napoleon. The list of those who had paid the guinea (one pound, one shilling) was posted on their parish...Read More

The puzzles of those early days were quite a challenge. Most had pieces cut exactly on the color lines. There were no transition pieces with two colors to signal, for example, that the brown area (roof) fit next to the ...Read More

If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.

Kazatsky (also spelled kazatski and kazatska) is the popular, vigorous Russian folk dance performed by a man. It is characterized by a step in which, from a squatting position, each leg is alternately kicked out.