Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey gave the world one of cinema's most chilling villains - the malevolent AI known as HAL 9000. With his ominous glowing red "eye", HAL has become pop culture iconography for evil artificial intelligence.
When someone tells you to "eat your heart out," they likely aren't speaking literally. This vivid expression dates back thousands of years to ancient Greece.
In the late 1800s, cities faced a smelly crisis that seemed unsolvable. Streets were choking on the massive quantities of manure left behind by the thousands of horses essential for transport and shipping.
Albert Einstein is undoubtedly one of the greatest scientific minds in history. The German-born physicist developed the theory of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of time, space, gravity, and the universe.
When Helen Viola Jackson passed away in December 2020 at age 101, it marked the end of an era. She was the last known surviving widow of a Civil War veteran, dying over 155 years after the war concluded.