The male adult entertainment brand Chippendales and the 1990s cartoon series Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers have very similar names for a good reason: they have the same origin for their names. Both the male revue dance troupe and the animation series about chipmunks are named after Chippendale furniture. This style of furniture was created…
Beanie Babies creator Ty Warner developed the novel plush bean bag animals in 1993 in Westmont, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. These small toys became hot-trading commodities that helped define the 90s decade and fueled greed-inspired crime. The first line of Beanie Babies consisted of nine animals Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Brownie the…
Coyote Ugly was released almost 21 years ago and is still a beloved classic about singer-songwriter Violet who finds her voice and gains confidence while working at an iconic performance bar. It turns out that this inspirational story is based (at least a little bit) on real life. Is there a real Coyote Ugly? Ugly…
This week’s episode of Travel Channel show Mysteries at the Museum goes to the Ringling Bros. Circus museum in Sarasota, FL to explain the story of one of its most enchanting curios. In the 1980s, the Ringing Brothers Circus claimed they had a real, live unicorn. In 1984 star unicorn Lancelot and his “brothers” debuted…
The Haunted Live Octagon Hall episode highlighted one of the most curious and oft-investigated paranormal sites in the state of Kentucky, if not the entire south. Octagon Hall’s extensive history (and its notorious death list) were too much for a single hour of already ghost hunt-packed television to cover, so we thought we’d hit a…
The Curse of Civil War Gold, like its History parent show Curse of Oak Island, is a treasure hunt based on an intriguing historical possibility: What if, in the waning days of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis fled the south with the entire Confederate treasury…and then lost it? Also like Oak Island, it’s open-ended enough…
Is History’s Alone real or fake? The show is an undisputed hit, and it’s not hard to see why–it’s probably the most ambitious survival reality show currently on the air. The show’s premise is simple enough: take ten participants, drop them in different spots on the same abandoned locale, and see how long they can…
Is DB Cooper dead or alive? How might DB Cooper have died? Is DB Cooper even real? Where is he now? And where is DB Cooper’s money? One of the most infamous, brazen, and puzzling thefts in US history has baffled authorities for decades and given rise to a whole legion of amateur sleuths, all of whom…
History is going all in this summer with Barbarians Rising, an eight-part docu-series that weaves together elements of traditional documentary narrative and bloodthirsty historical drama to create a brand-new tapestry. The show highlights a series of different tribes (and those tribes’ charismatic leaders), which, over the course of hundreds of years, were able to wear away…
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Is Vikings historically accurate? How historically accurate is Vikings? The hugely popular History series is about to air its new season, and more folks are talking about it than ever before. The one question that seems to follow Vikings around like a curse, though, is also the simplest: is Vikings historically accurate? During the show’s run, experts have given Vikings fairly high marks…
On January 25 History kicks off its three-part miniseries Sons of Liberty, a six-hour event that follows “a defiant and radical group of young men – Sam Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock and Dr. Joseph Warren – as they band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a…
As Above, So Below, the latest found footage style horror flick, hits theaters this week. Although it’s gotten disappointing reviews, the setting of this film is pretty fascinating.
Shrek is such a cartoon exaggeration that it seems like if he were based on a real person, it would be loosely, but it turns out that the artists who worked on Shrek had a real life model that looked exactly like their green ogre with a heart of gold.
American Horror: Coven features a paranormal being based the Axeman of New Orleans. The Real Axeman’s identity is still unknown, but he murdered at least eight people from May 1918 to October 1919, usually using their own axes.
20 years ago, on January 6, 1994, ice skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee, resulting in an injury that took her out of the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, and ballooned into a massive scandal. As more details of the mysterious attack came to light, fellow skater Tonya Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly was found to have arranged for some men to break Kerrigan’s leg to take her out of the competition.
ESPN’s documentary film series 30 for 30 is devoting an episode, titled “The Price of Gold,” to catching up with Tonya Harding, and how the event has changed her life.
It just isn’t a New Year in the U.S. without the ubiquitous ball drop from Times Square in NYC every year. How did this tradition get started?
Modern breast implants, which can look nice if you use the right doctor, were developed in the 1960s, but some early substances used were downright barbaric. Find out more about the history of breast implants, and how long they’ve been around.
These days TV is all about the witches, especially on the latest, and possibly the best, edition of American Horror Story. The FX hit show is set in Louisiana, where, according to the first episode, the real witches escaped the infamous 1692 Salem Witch Trials. Tonight the witches that remained in Salem are coming to New Orleans to settle a score with Marie Laveau. How many people died in the real Salem Witch trials? How did it all begin?
Footage of the late River Pheonix and his brother Joaquin acting together in 1984 for the first and only time.
Most folks know that Drew Barrymore comes from an acting family, but do you know the extent of her acting roots? How many generations of actors are there in Drew Barrymore’s family?
For years when someone proposes marriage, it’s expected that it will A: Be a surprise, and B: involve a beautiful engagement ring, usually diamond. It turns out 20th century advertising are behind both of these cultural expectations. Blame Don Draper for feeling the heat to pick out the biggest, sparkliest, and purest diamond for your future wife.
Showtime’s new series Ray Donovan stars Liev Schrieber as a Hollywood “fixer,” a steely man who handles difficult situations for L.A.’s most powerful people.
In the first episode Ray takes care of a basketball player who wakes up next to a dead girl, a movie star who wants to avoid being caught with a pre-op transsexual, and an epileptic addicted starlet’s stalker. Who is this character based on? Are there still “fixers” in L.A.?
Miley Cyrus has succeeded in seriously distracting everyone with her twerks and grinds, and tongue action (just to mention a few of the things) at the VMAs Sunday night, which is kind of sad because Kanye West’s simple, stripped down performance is being largely overlooked.
The squishy, gooey, bright-colored mid-90s Nickelodeon toy Gak (which has recently been revived) wasn’t just a silly word the toy developers made up. Mark Summers, the host of Nickelodeon show Double Dare where the concept of Gak was first created, reveals its gritty meaning in a new interview.
A notorious hit man, Charles Harrelson was accused of more than one dozen murders. He even claimed involvement in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Learn more about his life… Including what Woody thinks about his father.
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled plans on Tuesday to build a “full-scale recreation” of the Titanic. The new cruise ship, creatively titled Titanic II, will begin carrying passengers in late 2016. Palmer, who runs the Blue Star Cruise Line, said Titanic II will be “the ship where dreams come true.”
More than 150 years after dying from complications of childbirth, the body of Julia Pastrana is back in her native Mexico. Pastrana died in Europe, where she was exploited in traveling shows that deemed her the “Ape Woman.”
Three people died early Sunday morning while filming a new show for the Discovery Channel when their helicopter went down near Los Angeles. This is the worst film set accident in California in more than 30 years.
Sure, Lady Mary and the Doweger Countess pretty much run the show, but the true star of the international sensation Downton Abbey is Downton Abbey itself, which is “played” by Highclere Castle. Find out more about this fascinating place, including it’s staggering price tag.
Valentine’s Day as we know it now is very bittersweet: Sweet if you’ve got a generous crush/love and/or lots of friends to shower you with gifts, cards, emails, tweets, flowers, and candy, until you’re swimming in red and pink colored flattery. It’s also sweet if you’re a pop star who spends Valentine’s Day with a dying fan.
But it’s also very bitter, for those who think it’s just another cynical holiday meant to sell candy and cards, and of course, if you’re not linked up to anyone romantically during this time, it just seems like everyone who is is just rubbing it in your face. That girl at work that keeps getting flowers delivered. That kid at school with ALL the candygrams. Your best friend/sister/mortal enemy and her reservations at the poshest spot in town with her fiance (who’s in finance, looks like George Clooney, and loves puppies.) Really, it’s kind of sadistic when you think about it.
So, how did this wretched/wonderful holiday come about? It turns out the history of Valentine’s day is even more brutal than finding an empty Valentine’s cubby in elementary school.
In HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Steve Buscemi plays a generous-but-ruthless who runs Atlantic City. He character is based on a real man: Enoch J. “Nucky” Johnson, who had control of Atlantic City, NJ for 30 years, and turned it into what it is today.
Colin Firth’s portrayal of the stammering England’s King George VI in The King’s Speech is not-to-be-missed performance this movie season. Firth, who displayed a wealth of emotional depth and subtlety, got so into his character as the ambivalent and frustrated king that he continued to stutter weeks after filming ended. The King’s Speech is an…
Armed with nothing but a solid knowledge of history, a decent singing voice, and heaping doses of creativity, a group of history teachers have finally found a way to properly instruct children (and adults.) Going by the handle “historyteachers” on YouTube, these educators do treatments of popular pop songs with the lyrics changed to history…
The HBO movie Temple Grandin staring Claire Danes swept the 2010 Emmy Awards in almost all movie and mini-series categories. Every acceptance speech included mention of Temple, who was in the audience wearing her signature flashy cowgirl shirt and western belt buckle and she proudly stood up almost every time. She was even able to…
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