In honor of Valentine's Day, the 573 love letters between Elizabeth Barrett and her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, are available online for the first time, revealing their courtship, their blossoming love and their forbidden marriage.
Today, President Barack Obama named fifteen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor. The Medal of Freedom is presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Mr. Obama described the annual awards as one of his favorite duties.
In preparation for "Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them", The Boy Who Lived is coming back to IMAX theaters near you.
Every year, a Dutch town hosts an awe-inspiring flower parade of colossal proportions. To celebrate Van Gogh's birthday this year, they went even bigger.
The tedium of this weekday commute was broken by a group of ordinary people reminding us that all it takes is a little singing to feel connected.
A poetry project in NYC beams the keystrokes of a public typewriter onto a website, like a collective Twitter feed, capturing the emotions of a chaotic summer.
A new adult coloring book provides the perfect creative outlet to help people in recovery focus on the good in their world.
This adorably filmed story of a yellow car parked on the street is a perfect example of why it's important to let go of the tiny things rather than stress.
The first of the 2014 summer supermoons filled the night sky last night. Here are some of your photos from around the United States. Click to see the full photos.
Philadelphia's mural art project has changed the face of the city from grim and gloomy to colorful, cultural and spirited. As a bonus, the kids who have joined the program to paint the run-down walls of urban buildings racked up a 100% record of graduating from high school.
Some people can't even recite their own national anthem, but this girl learned the songs of 80 other countries– in the native language, to benefit a charity.
A 17-year-old has invented a mine-sweeping device that can detect land mines based on sound waves, similar to the way piano strings create vibrations in nearby guitars. Both of Marian Bechtel's parents are geologists involved in developing a holographic device for detecting land mines, but her own idea was inspired by her time spent at the piano.
A year ago, he was living in an impoverished township in rural South Africa. Now, the 12-year-old is living his dream with Canada's National Ballet School. Little did he know, in the spring of 2009, while performing in a local dance show that he was actually getting a life-altering audition.
Quvenzhane Wallis could make Oscar history tonight by taking home the Best Actress statue for her role in the critically acclaimed drama Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which she became the youngest actor ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was 6 years old when she played the part of Hushpuppy, the indomitable child prodigy and survivalist who lives with her dying father in the backwoods squalor of a Louisiana bayou.
"Shawshank Redemption" star Tim Robbins has an acting class that's cutting repeat offender rates in half for inmates at real-life California prisons.
All Amy Krouse Rosenthal wants with the time that she has left is for someone to love her husband as much as she does.
This Maryland tattoo parlor is offering up a second chance for people who are regretting their racist or gang-related tattoos.
The textile line will provide over 200 flexible job positions to displaced Syrian refugees taking shelter in Jordan.
One of the largest art supply stores in the country is giving a big gift to over 30,000 sick children across North America.
This University of Central Arkansas student had to prove his sobriety to the boys in blue – so he pulled out a few juggling mallets for a special show.
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