When watching Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell's final performance of "Hunger Strike," a duet, it's clear what love and admiration these musical legends held for each other. The song, recorded for Temple of the Dog's eponymous 1990 album, was a touchstone moment.
Read MoreJust before 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 26, was the start of something big. An initial explosion occurred that threw a cloud of debris and gas into the air. The next day, however. there really was an Earth-shattering kaboom.
Read MoreIn New York, there's a group that prowls the streets, striving to keep people safe. And no, they are not the Avengers. They are the Shomrim — Hebrew for "guards" — an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood watch group, and their rivals, the Shmira, both of which have complicated relationships with the city.
Read MoreImagine the surprise if you're out on sort of an expedition into the forest and mostly you're there to discover how many trees you can cut down and clearing land for an internationally huge fruit company and what you discover are round spheres. Made out of rock.
Read MoreMark Twain is unique among American literary giants, insofar as he's famous, he's studied, and people continue to read and quote him, all these years later. But there's more to him than you might know.
Read MoreNot only did the ancient Romans have a love of fast food, they had a fully developed, highly cosmopolitan culture, particularly in Rome itself, capital of the empire, with a population of over one million. People worked, rested, chatted with friends, went to baths and gyms, and watched sports.
Read MoreOn January 4, 1970, Keith Moon, the drummer of the British rock band The Who, accidentally ran over Neil Boland, his chauffeur and bodyguard, killing him.
Read MoreIt's not surprising Rage Against the Machine, with their politically charged music, would encounter strife and challenges during their career.
Read MoreAlthough computers, as we would know them, had their start as early as 1936, according to Live Science, personal computers weren't widely available until the 1980s. Here's what that was like.
Read MoreCan you dance to it? Does it have a good beat? Are the lyrics catchy? Are the words complete? And most of all, especially in the 1960s: what does it mean? That last one was especially trick for the Beatles' 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.'
Read MoreOn August 9th, 2020, the WWE released a statement confirming that James Harris, better known by his in-ring persona Kamala, had passed away at age 70.
Read MoreOkay, look at this from the perspective of an Occam's razor enthusiast, wherein the simplest solution is equal measures zany and petrifying. In the early hours of February the 25th, 1942, a cocktail of paranoia and faulty radar systems was mixed on the California coastline.
Read MoreThe Silk Road allowed for the spread of people and goods, becoming the earliest global network. Here is why the Silk Road was more important than you realize.
Read MoreThe real Lewis and Clark expedition was far more brutal than what you were told in school. This is the messed up truth about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Read MoreSome refer to it as a golden age of filmmaking, and no doubt the early days of Hollywood produced some nifty pieces of cinematic art. But those were also the days of studios controlling nearly every aspect of an actor's life. Including marriage.
Read MoreLassie, as a character, started out in a short story written by Eric Knight and published in 1938. But what about the actual "actor"?
Read MoreConvenience store shelves can seem like an assortment of unrelated miscellany to a bright-eyed young adult, with neither the experience nor the personal problems to necessitate a debilitating drug problem.
Read MoreYou might be obsessed with the Kardashian-Jenners now, but had you lived in the early to mid-1900s, you would have craved news about the Mitford sisters.
Read MoreChris Cornell's voice took him far in life, elevating him to rich and famous rock star status with Soundgarden, Audioslave, and more, but his life would end tragically prematurely. Here's a look at what the final 12 months of Chris Cornell's life was like.
Read MoreThere's a handful of artists who can be said to be synonymous with country music, but where Johnny Cash had plenty of rock 'n' roll crossover appeal and Willie Nelson likes his outlaw country, Kris Kristofferson embodies the genre's wholesome heart.
Read MoreStories about the end of public payphones, when they are published, tend to sound like coverage of their phasing out in New York, which talk about their obsolescence. While payphones certainly are an outdated technology, however, they also have a sordid history.
Read MoreDarryl Jones first learned to bass when his father was teaching him how to play the xylophone and drums. He saw his south Chicago neighbor, an Angus Thomas, play the bass in the school talent show and promptly began studying with him.
Read MoreThere are a couple ways that you could approach the question of how Raëlism began. Let's start with its founder, a French-Canadian man named Claude.
Read MoreAfroman, most notable for his 2001 ode to marijuana, "Because I Got High", has sustained a moderately successful music career through touring. While his image is lighthearted, a fan incident shows a darker side of the artist.
Read MoreBastet could be a gentle protector or a fierce punisher, and a riotous festival was held every year in her honor. Here's a primer on the Egyptian cat goddess.
Read MoreWith his silvery sideburns and perpetual grumpy-old-man look, Neil Young might warrant the occasional "Neil Old" joke from the younger audience that's not familiar with his body of work. However, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter probably couldn't care less.
Read MoreFrom unspectacular beginnings as a relatively nondescript medical facility, Arkham Asylum (originally Arkham Hospital) expanded, warped, and eventually became the gothic labyrinth of villainy you know today. But did you know that a real life mental institution inspired it?
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