If you were among the millions who watched the dramatic seventh game of the World Series last year, you might have come away thinking you saw the greatest game of all time. The game was a nail-biter, as the Chicago Cubs finally won their first World Series...
The world-famous fantasy epic, Lord of the Rings, might never have been written if the author had not come down with a fever. The author of the trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, was an officer for the British army during World War I. But when he came down with “trench...
Superman started out as a villain. When two students from Glenview High School in Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, wrote a short story in the early 1930s about Superman, their new character was a villain who wanted to conquer the world. But within a year,...