BY RICHARD JONES In recent weeks ghosts, dozens – maybe even thousands – of them, have been appearing in my front room. I have, you see, been watching the many film versions there have been of the Charles Dickens classic in an endeavour to find the best movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Every year, […]

BY Brett & Kate McKay |writing for The Art of Manliness It was a time of carnage and darkness: the Age of Wars, when the land was torn by bloodshed and the only law was the law of the sword. A peasant wandered the countryside alone, seeking his fortune, without a coin in his pocket. He […]

by Ryan Scott writing for Causecast.com High employee engagement is a goal shared by most company leaders, as it’s widely viewed as an indicator of a healthy corporate culture that many believe breeds higher levels of productivity, retention and recruitment. Deloitte reports that 87% of executives rate culture and employee engagement as their biggest HR related […]

By Chris Jacob writing for Gizmodo Thomas Edison was known for his wacky publicity stunts, but during the Christmas of 1880 he went for the sentimental rather than shock value. That year, instead of electrocuting an elephant, he brought us the first electric Christmas light display. The Wizard’s Light Show By the time 1880 rolled around, Edison […]

By Alice Vincent writing for The Telegraph The Happy Birthday song has finally been ruled as belonging to the public domain, but did you know of its tangled history? On June 27, 1859, teacher Mildred Hill was born. You may not know her name but you will almost certainly have sung the song she helped write. Hill […]

By John Broich writing from Time.com Dickens originally intended to write a pamphlet about poverty, but he changed his mind After a particularly bleak year, millions in the English-speaking world and beyond will seek some comfort by watching a converted miser in a nightshirt, skipping about as light as a feather. “Whoop! Hallo! …What’s to-day my fine […]

By John DiJulius, The Dijulius Group I Collect The Best Thing Anyone Can Collect I have never been a real collector. When I was a kid, I collected baseball cards, a lot of baseball cards. I cashed in on them at the height of the baseball card market, shortly after I got married. I traded […]

BY Melissa Chan @melissalchan The Santacon in Austin includes a flash mob and naughty Christmas carols Santacon, the annual pub crawl that lures out large groups of red-suited revelers dressed in Santa suits, is set to storm several major cities across the U.S. this weekend. The spirited and popular event, which draws participants both naughty and […]

Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn died Thursday at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. Glenn, who served four terms as a U.S. senator from Ohio, was one of NASA’s original seven Mercury astronauts. His flight on Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, showed the world that America was a serious […]

By Jennifer, writing for Bostrick You better watch out…because, let’s face it, Christmas is around the corner.  It’s never too early to get a jump start on the coolest gifts for kids.   There’s nothing worse than being under the gun, while people continually post the countdown to Christmas on social media (the stress is real!).  We’ve scoured […]