Tag: Peculiar

He was born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England in 1904 but became world famous as film icon Cary Grant. Throughout the 20th Century few movie stars achieved his level of worldwide fame. His mother died when he was age nine, and that may have contributed to issues with women for the rest of his...

Elon Musk, the enigmatic billionaire and CEO of Tesla, recently dismissed remote work as “morally wrong” in a CNBC interview, likening it to a privileged indulgence of the “laptop class.” According to Musk, “You’re going to work-from-home, and you’re...

June 4, 1968: While campaigning to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. The crime took place in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. (That hotel is now long gone.) The shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, an American whose fam...

October 17, 1989: My wife and I were newlyweds living in a San Francisco apartment with two cats and a bird. Our wedding took place just eight days earlier in Lake Tahoe. 5 pm: I turned on the TV to watch Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics. A...

Not too late after Schiele started drawing a great number of portraits and self-portraits in search of his unique style back in 1910, his models and objects started to make some curious gestures with their hands. Authors and art historians agree that his expressionist style was emerging and the bodi...

1980: Dr. Hershel Jick was a professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was in charge of the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, which began in 1966. That group, which still exists, published hundreds of data-driven pharmacological studies. One of Dr. Jick’s gr...

In both my professional pursuits and casual conversations, the question of how and when Hindi — the national language of India — emerged has been a point of overwhelming debate and confusion. In these discussions, some claimed Hindi developed directly from Sanskrit, an ancient classic...