Maria Riva, an actress and author who was the only child of Marlene Dietrich, the audacious, androgynous and libidinous Teutonic screen siren and cabaret star -- and whose bombshell biography of her ...
In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, ...
Wassily Kandinsky considered his most important paintings to be the ten colorful, complex canvases in his Compositions series ...
This towering Victorian home is generally referred to as the Lynch House, although the man for whom it is known, only lived ...
Unthinkable: French philosopher René Girard developed a theory of scapegoating. The US vice president has weaponised it ...