Today I saw an example of another use for the toy cube created by Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik. This time it was a chest of drawers, one of the more clever variations, as you can see by some of the other Rubik-inspired creations out there.
The most wanted criminal in the United States was nabbed thanks to a tip from Anna Bjornsdottir, a former model and 1974’s Miss Iceland in the Miss Universe pageant. How did a TV spokesmodel for Noxema cross paths with James “Whitey” Bulger?
Sir Paul McCartney married American Nancy Shevell, “heiress to a haulage fortune,” today in London. We’ve got photos.
When was the late Al Davis in the Army? And just how old is his son?
The Times calls Charles Napier “actor who played tough guys.” But he was really “hippie guitarist from Star Trek.”
Robert Holmgren was lucky enough to photograph Steve Jobs more than once during the NExT computer era. Now he shares the stories.
Jane Goodall is on tour. She’s in my town right now, across the river, being interviewed on the radio program Think Out Loud, from Oregon Public Broadcasting. What makes a 77 year-old want to go on tour?
And not from the Franklin Mint, mind you — from the United States Mint itself.
Author Anne Rice is 70 years old today. She’s the one who gave us the vampire Lestat, introduced in her 1976 novel Interview with a Vampire. If you don’t know that book, uh… it’s like Twilight for grown-ups. Grown-ups who like to read pages and pages of flowery prose.
The first Monday of October is the opening day for the United States Supreme Court. Can you name all twelve Supreme Court justices?