Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

A Great Dane named Juliana received a medal during World War II for defusing a bomb by urinating on it. A Great Dane named ...

Netflix's 'Six Triple Eight' tells the heroic true story of the only all-Black, all-female battalion in WWII, led by Tyler Perry and starring Kerry Washington.

The Martha Wood Cottage, built after Shurtleff College's 1877 Jubilee, later became part of the SIU School of Dental Medicine ...

Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...

King Charles and the Prince and Princess of Wales attended various events to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Tremble stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Amazon’s Wilderness) and Jeremy Neumark Jones (Netflix’s Kleo) as Solomon Weiner and Michael Podchlebnik, two Jewish prisoners who escaped the Chelmno extermination ...

James Bond, probably the most famous spy in the world, was created by the English writer Ian Fleming, but he owes his debonair personality to two Irishmen. The first was the film producer Kevin ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith. Joan Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was conferred the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.