Burt Shavitz, who co-founded Burt’s Bees, died Sunday in Bangor, Maine. Burt Shavitz, the man whose face is on your minty Burt’s Bees lip balm and body wash, died on Sunday in Bangor, Maine. He was 80. NPR’s Elizabeth Blair reports that Shavitz’s death resulted from respiratory complications. Is Burt…
The beginning of the Bronze Age occurred around 3500 BCE and the beginning of the Iron Age began around 1000 BCE. Why did it take 2000 years for bronze to be replaced by iron? Looking around us we see structural steel and concrete seemingly everywhere in our modern cities. So…
Back in 1991, 25-year-old Bushwick Bill, high on PCP and after drinking Everclear grain alcohol, shot himself in the eye with a gun during an argument with his girlfriend. That is one version of the story of how the rapper – a member of the influential group the Geto Boys…
Brooke Shields’ accident in January left her with a broken femur, required multiple surgeries to fix and later turned into a staph infection that had her in “excruciating” pain — but the actress made a point to refuse any prescription painkillers as she recovered. Does Brooke Shields walk with a…
Crabbe was perhaps best known as Flash Gordon, but he also starred as Tarzan, Buck Rogers and various other derring-do characters in the cheap second-billed films of the 1930s and ’40s. He was the only actor who has played Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and Tarzan – the top three pulp…
The decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on May 17, 1954 is perhaps the most famous of all Supreme Court cases, as it started the process ending segregation. It overturned the equally far-reaching decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE…
Lord Byron swims the Hellespont. Legendary Greek hero Leander supposedly swam the same four-mile stretch. Byron’s visits to Greece later made him a passionate supporter of Greek independence from Turkey. The 22-year-old Byron was taking an extended tour of the European continent when he decided to take his famous swim.…
Bruce Lee’s official cause of death was swelling of the brain caused by an allergic reaction to a headache medication, although some considered the circumstances of his death mysterious. He died in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973, six days before the release of his film Enter the Dragon there.…
Friday’s temblor is the largest Southern California quake in at least 20 years and was followed by a series of large and small aftershocks, including a handful above magnitude 5.0. Seismologists said on Saturday that they had measured at least 2,600 aftershocks of magnitude 3.0 and greater. An earthquake on…
Bruce Lee, who trained in Wing Chun and formed his own school of kung fu called Jeet Kune Do, didn’t keep his skills to himself. After training with Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man and leaving Hong Kong for America, Lee taught kung fu to many students over the next several…