By: Maralee McKee MannersMentor.com Greetings! Texting etiquette hasn’t reached the heights of the tsunami of texts we send every day because no other technological form of communication has caught on so quickly. It’s easy to see why many have become so smitten. Texting is the 21st century equivalent of passing a note in class! It […]

By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY There may be a Falcon in Captain America: Civil War, but only one movie this summer features a whole flocking mess of personality. The Angry Birds Movie (in theaters Friday), a big-screen animated take on the popular video-game app, sees a peaceful island of flightless birds have to go to slingshot war […]

By Evan Andrews for History.com Local fairs and carnivals have been around since the Middle Ages, but modern amusement parks can trace their roots to the 19th century, when so-called “pleasure gardens” and “trolley parks” first flourished in the United States and Europe. These early resorts featured primitive—and often wildly unsafe—rollercoasters and rides, but they also […]

By Shea Bennett writing for Social Times/Adweek.com What’s your first memory of social media? Twitter, perhaps? Or maybe Facebook? If you’re of a certain age, you’ll likely remember when MySpace was very much numero uno amongst all social platforms. Roll the years back a little further, and you could have been one of the (relatively) few […]

From thedijuliusgroup.com We all have a company or two that we can’t fathom life without.  What are the few companies that you would be extremely upset if I told you, “You can no longer do business with them, ever again”?  When I ask my audiences this question, the same brands always get mentioned: Apple, Starbucks, Nordstrom, […]

By Jennie Cohen writing for History.com From the Middle Ages until the late the 19th century, pairs of quarreling men—and, in some cases, women—regularly settled their disputes with duels. Find out how a bitter rivalry cost a U.S. vice president his life, how a friendly spot of tea took a violent turn and how jealousy spelled […]

By Christopher Klein History.com On February 25, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the National Banking Act (originally known as the National Currency Act), which for the first time in American history established the federal dollar as the sole currency of the United States. On the law’s 150th anniversary, explore eight surprising facts about American money. 1. […]

Descendants of American Presidents From Smithsonian.com Earlier this year, Mental Floss published a brief article explaining how it is possible that the tenth president of the United States, born in 1790, has two grandsons who are still alive. President John Tyler (above) fathered a total of 15 children—more than any other president—with two wives, the […]

BY TANAY WARERKAR writing for Curbed The newest resident at the world’s tallest residential building, 432 Park Avenue, is none other than the chairman of Douglas Elliman, Howard Lorber, The Real Deal reports. His company is in charge of the sales and marketing of the supertall, and he’s not the first Douglas Elliman-related executive to purchase […]

This interview with Tobi Lütke,C.E.O. of Shopify, an e-commerce software company, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Tell me about your early years. A. I grew up in Koblenz, a small town in Germany. I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children […]