Nearly 50 years ago, a 14-year-old student taking an oceanography class penned a message in a bottle. Decades later, the ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

The King of Kings, an animated film based on Dickens’s retelling of the life of Christ, is a runaway hit. Would the author have approved?

There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...