By the time she appeared as the final guest of Johnny Carson’s 30-year career on The Tonight Show and brought tears to the unflappable host’s eyes with an emotional performance of “One For My Baby (And One More For The Road),” she was an established star of stage and screen—a Tony winner, an Oscar nominee, a Grammy winner and a multimillion-selling recording artist.

Why would an ancient, folkloric, but non-Biblical, character such as a mermaid find its way into so many medieval European churches?

History Reads is a weekly series featuring work from Team History, a group of experts and influencers, exploring history’s most fascinating questions.Four years of work, all for naught.That’s what a team of Pfizer chemists working in southwest England in the early 1990s was coming to conclude about sildenafil citrate, a pharmaceutical compound they had been developing as a possible treatment for chest pain and high blood pressure.

A monumental estátua de pedra de Tiwanaku, Bolívia, conhecida como Ponce Monolith. Essas estátuas talvez representem a raça de gigantes de pedra que povoou o mundo pela primeira vez na mitologia pan-andina. Ouro...

Keystone LB-8The Keystone LB-8 was the designation given to the seventeenth LB-7 light bomber after it was given Pratt & Whitney R-1860-3 radial engines. These were geared engines, with a 2:1 ratio, and were more efficient than the direct-drive engines used on the LB-7. The LB-8 was 12mph faster than the LB-7, and had a service ceiling of 16,800ft, over 5,000ft higher than that of the LB-7.

Inimigos tradicionais - Guerra da Grã-Bretanha com a França de Vichy 1940-1942, John D Grainger Inimigos tradicionais - Guerra da Grã-Bretanha com a França de Vichy 1940-1942, John D Grainger Entre a queda da França em 1940 e a ocupação alemã da França de Vichy após A Operação Tocha, a Grã-Bretanha e a França, estiveram envolvidas em uma série de confrontos militares diretos.