It took a couple of hundred years, but some members of what passed as the medical profession started to ask whether tobacco and cigarette smoking was really such a good idea after all.
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Vikings was a big hit, but there was one scene in particular that Winnick struggled with.
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Queen Victoria, with nine children and a full time job, probably needed to cut loose once in a while. Here are her favorite drugs.
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Queen Victoria's grandson, Prince Albert Victor was known to those who loved him as "Eddy," (also great uncle to the present Queen, Elizabeth II), and a proposed candidate for true identity of Jack the Ripper.
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Historical figures become known by their nicknames. Sometimes, people forget why they were given those names in the first place. That's pretty much what happened to Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen, especially after the BBC TV show of the same name premiered.
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Acting is a notoriously fickle business. There are those actors who want to branch out into music, or direct, or return to their roots in live theater. Or aspire to film, rising above the more pedestrian work to be found on television. (Commercials? Ew.)
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What is it about Jesse that drives Breaking Bad fans nuts?
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The royal family follows a lot of rules. These can involve what they wear, how they walk, or what to say, but one of the lesser-known ones has to do with titles. For example, Elizabeth II is Her Majesty the Queen, but her husband remains His Royal Highness, Prince Philip. Why is that?
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In what might well be a case of rock-and-roll toe-may-toe/toe-mah-toe, Lindsey Buckingham was either fired from Fleetwood Mac or was "forced out" (which is kind of the same thing, maybe) by fellow Fleetwooder Stevie Nicks in 2018.
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Get famous enough, and the legends start to pile up. The Vikings are no exception. Here are some popular Viking myths you can stop believing.
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It's accepted wisdom that nothing succeeds like success — if it worked one time, it'll probably work the next time, too. Oscar Wilde once observed, "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." Both lines would apply to the phenomenon known as The Walking Dead ...
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Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was a man of many titles and epithets. According to ThoughtCo, people called him the "Butcher of Uganda." When Amin died in 2003, the BBC dubbed him "the buffoon tyrant" in a scathing obituary. The names he gave himself were far more charitable.
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Before Elizabeth I became queen, she was nearly executed by her half-sister.
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Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England are forever bound in history -- especially because the Queen of England ordered her rival's death. What makes their relationship intriguing is that they never even met.
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Aren't face masks fun? Not really, no, but they are necessary for now. Here's the biggest error you're probably making when wearing it.
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Queens of the Stone Age is one of the great survivors of the nineties rock scene. Formed in 1996 on the foundations of stoner-rock cult outfit Kyuss, according to AllMusic, the hard-rocking band not only flourished, but actually shot to the major leagues in the 2000s ...
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From his humble musical beginnings as a folk duo with Stevie Nicks to his illustrious career in Fleetwood Mac and assorted solo albums, Lindsey Buckingham has been an important part of the pop culture tapestry for decades. Here's how much that music career has earned him.
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Queen Elizabeth II: She's iconic. She's universally known. She has not once, to the best of anyone's knowledge, beheaded a traitor with a broadsword and forced his followers to clean the blood from her throne with their tongues.
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The Kingdom of Kush was an ancient civilization located in Northeast Africa, just south of Ancient Egypt. The Kushites were winners and losers; underdogs and overlords; aggressively expanding and defensively skulking into the historical shadows. This is the true history of the lost Kingdom of Kush.
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Was it galling, to be a 19th-century male married to a queen? With no real title or responsibilities of your own? That's one of the puzzles presented by the life of Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, or Prince Albert, who had the good fortune to marry Queen Victoria.
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In the Spring of 2020, the citizens of this fair planet found themselves in an unenviable position: humans had, collectively, run out of board games that didn't make them want to kill each other. Rounds of Risk ended invariably with one person stuck in Greenland, while the other ...
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On Halloween night, 1978, Freddie Mercury held a no-holds-barred album release party for Queen's new LP, Jazz. Since then, the night has become an urban legend in its own right.
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While all royal deaths are impactful, they're even more affecting when they happen in public. This is what happens when they die in front of their subjects.
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King Tut. The name captures the imagination. Just ask Steve Martin, who did a famous musical number about Tutankhamen for Saturday Night Live. Like a lot of history, though, the details often get lost in the translation ... until science steps in and gives the low-down.
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Elizabeth I had the extremely mixed blessing of being born of the House of Tudor, the reigning royal family of England, which began with Henry VII in 1485. Royalty being what it is, and national elections being what they weren't, succession was always an issue.
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A few months ago, times were simpler -- largely because Tiger King hadn't yet premiered. But now that it has, with its puzzling cast of characters, we have names like Bhagavan 'Doc' Antle, and equally puzzling financial situations. With his money in mind -- how did the tiger earn its stripes?
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Queen Elizabeth I had her pick of the litter in terms of recreational activities. Some of them got pretty gross. Here's what she did for fun.
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