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 […]

By ADAM TOREN, CONTRIBUTOR for Entreprenuer Before you ask, yes, it’s true: one entrepreneur (and his founding team) was able to grow his business by 57,000 percent in just three years. His name is Tom Bilyeu. You may have munched on a few of his Quest bars before. You might not hear his name as often as […]

BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ New  York Daily News To live a long, healthy life, go a little nuts — every day. That’s the takeaway of a study published Monday in the BMC Medicine journal, which found that munching a handful of nuts on a daily basis cuts the risk of a wide range of diseases — from […]

By Nicole Lindsay writing for The Sydney Morning Herald  Serviced office providers have quietly risen to the challenge posed by fast-growing and trendy new co-working spaces by offering their own version of the product. Sydney-based Servcorp is trialling co-working spaces at four locations – Sydney, Tokyo, New York and London – and Regus is using […]

By Alison Nastasi writing for Flavorwire It was a modest box officer winner when it was released on this day back in 1939, but MGM’s grand Technicolor fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz, won the hearts of millions more when it debuted on TV for the first time in 1956. It became an annual tradition for […]