Arts & Culture
5 Things People Used to Eat for Breakfast
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What Is the World’s Oldest Story?
Whether relayed by way of a novel, poem, movie, or word of mouth, stories have served as a means of connecting people through shared experiences and emotions since we first…
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John Steinbeck’s dog ate the first draft of “Of Mice and Men.”
By the spring of 1936, life was clearly on the upswing for John Steinbeck. As described in Jay Parini’s biography, the commercial success of his 1935 novel Tortilla Flat had…
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The first Broadway musical was performed in 1866.
On September 12, 1866, a packed house at Niblo’s Garden theater at the junction of Broadway and Prince Street in New York City witnessed a unique spectacle with the six-plus-hour…
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5 Essential World War II Novels
World War II remains one of the most significant and devastating events in human history; it’s the source of countless stories of heroism, tragedy, and resilience. Historical fiction set during…