When a Kansas City museum put a Vincent Van Gogh painting under the microscope, it found an unlikely intruder: a grasshopper trapped in the canvas’s painterly whirls for 128 years. Mary Schafer, a conservator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, came across the tiny dried, brown carcass in the lower foreground while studying the painting …

Right now, America is in the midst of an exhilarating newspaper war the likes of which has not been seen since the Watergate scandal. Reporters such as The New York Times’s Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, and Glenn Thrush and The Washington Post’s Greg Miller, Philip Rucker, and Adam Entous—to name some of the most relentless—have …

A television series of JRR Tolkien’s classic series of fantasy novels could be in the works. According to US reports, the Tolkien Estate and Warner Bros are quoting up to £189 million for the rights to the Lord of the Rings with an aim to turn it into a series. It has been claimed by …

The Bermuda Triangle has an Eastern counterpoint located in the Philippine Sea that has supposedly been swallowing up ships for centuries. Surely you’ve heard of the Bermuda Triangle. It’s that supposed vortex of death located in the Atlantic Ocean around Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda where planes, tankers and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared. …

This person has made a revolution in recording sphere and became the first American to receive Lenin Order. George Mesrop Avakian (born 1919) is an American music producer, artist manager, writer, and educator best known for his work with artists such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Keith Jarrett, Sonny …