Plucking at his mustache, his eyes glancing this way then that, the old lion slips inside the door of a faceless meeting room in an upscale downtown Atlanta hotel, the better to reconnoiter his latest field of battle. The chandelier-lit room brims with young people, male, female, black, white and brown. Almost all of them […] Read more

My instruments of physics were algebra, calculus, and my primordial internet. That internet was powered by my hyper-global network of 65,536 computers. I wanted to broaden mathematics from the blackboard to the motherboard. I broadened it when I solved the largest algebraic equations —not on the blackboard— but on and across 65,536 computers that uniformly […] Read more

In the early years of the nineteenth century, refugees from war-torn Europe began arriving in New York. Many were remnants of the crumbling French aristocracy, forced to seek refuge abroad from the dreaded guillotine. Among these was a Madamoiselle Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Evremond, who arrived in 1803. Daughter of a noted courtier, wit, and litterateur, […] Read more

Forty-three year old Jack Kennedy, two-term senator from Massachusetts, was the youngest President ever elected. His wife, 31-year old Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a former New York debutante, was the youngest first lady. Baby John junior and his three year old sister Caroline, were conspicuously missing when their father was sworn in as the 35th President […] Read more

After the death of King George V and the abdication of King Edward VIII, Bertie who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, he arranges to see an eccentric speech therapist, […] Read more

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils […] Read more

Almost everyone is familiar with the screen characters of Moe, Larry and Curly, and most people know Shemp, Joe Besser and Curly Joe. These six men formed the world’s most loved comedy team, The Three Stooges.This is the other side of the story, the men behind the mayhem. Believe it or not, Moe was not […] Read more

Led Zeppelin began as an offshoot of the Yardbirds, the famed British band that launched guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. In 1966, Jimmy Page had taken over as lead guitarist. But the Yardbirds were already falling apart. When the Yardbirds finally imploded, Page was only too keen. He set about rounding up a […] Read more

Shuffling about his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, a shock of hair over one side of his forehead, sharp blue eyes sparkling, stains and chemical burns on his wrinkled clothing, Thomas Edison never looked like a man whose inventions had revolutionized the world in less than a lifetime. Certainly, he never acted like it. […] Read more