List of All Articles with Tag 'history'

Every winter, Jewish people around the world spend eight nights lighting candles, eating latkes, and spinning dreidels. But what’s Hanukkah really all about?

Those frilly paper caps on your turkey's legs have been called “turkey frills,” “turkey booties,” and even “turkey panties.” Here’s where they came from.

‘Little Women’ author Louisa May Alcott was also an early suffragette who fought against slavery and registered women to vote.

Ahead of the release of Ridley Scott’s biopic, ‘Napoleon,’ here are 11 facts about the woman who once stood in the emperor’s shadow.

Netflix’s 'The Crown'—a royal family drama, and one of the most expensive TV shows ever made—is coming to an end.

Furby was a toy sensation for ’90s kids, but these chatty, distinctive-looking fluffballs are still captivating youngsters to this day.

Solmization, or the practice of assigning syllables to the different “steps” of the scale, originated in ancient India.

It’s the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, but where did this tradition start? And just how big is it?

In 1864, the Jewish poet Ludwig August Frankl named blue and white “the colors of Judah” in a poem not so surprisingly called “Judah’s Colours.”

You think you’ve seen every category of words … then you find this batch, including such oddities as tableclothwise and rabbitwise.

Why do the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys always take to the field for a Thanksgiving football game? Because it’s tradition! But how did this tradition begin?

The Explorers Club keeps some odd artifacts in its collection, including a stuffed whale penis.