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St. Patrick's Day celebrates the patron saint of Ireland, who, as legend has it, chased the snakes out of Ireland. The day is often celebrated with plenty of re ...

One of Eric Clapton’s guitars also sold at the 2026 Irsay auction, and it became the most expensive acoustic guitar ever sold, fetching $4.1 million. The guitar was a Martin 000-42 acoustic that ...

Friday the 13th has been the subject of mythology and speculation for a long time. The origins of superstitions around the ...

Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders puts a fictional spin on some very real events. The Peaky Blinders were an actual street gang that operated in Birmingham, England in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Throughout all of history, women have worked. Whether they were paid or not for their labor is a different matter. But with the Industrial Revolution and people gathering in cities, the types of jobs ...

In the 1990s, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy were the couple everyone watched: polished, private, and endlessly photographed. From quiet walks through Tribeca to glamorous gala ...

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Whether he goes on to scoop an Oscar nomination next year will have to remain to be seen—but if not, this certainly wouldn’t be the first time that the BAFTAs have not only split from the Academy ...

But some instruments exceed all others, both in terms of their sound and in terms of their cost. This list features some of the most expensive and valuable instruments ever sold, and you may notice ...

From impactful speeches to timeless lines from famous actors, certain quotes are cemented in everyday culture.  How well do you really know the words that shaped history and pop culture? In this quiz, ...