Yeah, someone invented that, along with ballpoint pens ... Why it’s underrated: Like plastic bags, plastic straws are a faux ...

One of those scientists, Foster concluded, was a man named Steven Hatfill ... a Rhodesian suburb called Greendale—the name of the invented school in the return address of the anthrax letters ...

No one seems to know who the guy is, but AA will give him a free Ozarks T-shirt for this amazing spreadsheet. Cobra Brigade made a snazzy little link for it, so they deserve some credit as well.

And you have Lonnie Johnson to thank for it. The man behind one of the most popular toys of all time is an engineer who has worked for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Air Force, and NASA's Jet ...

So Shepherd-Barron became known as the "man who invented the cash machine" and not Goodfellow, the man who patented the system we use today. John Shepherd-Barron's cash machine was the first to be ...

Actually, many Americans probably think he was an FBI director or the guy who invented a vacuum. But Hoover was, in fact, a U.S. president -- and an interesting one to boot. Orphaned at age 9 ...

In 1977, del Rey, then in his 60s, turned his proclivity for fabulism to profit: He invented fantasy fiction as we know it ... and did research for a man working on a WPA bibliography of music in the ...

The subject matter hits all my sweet spots: a scatological tragicomic medieval romp featuring Sir Thomas Malory, the man who wrote the Arthurian legends, as the star. What, I prithee, is not to like?

NEW YORK -- I am a man of the people, which is why I generously ... They drank Champagne from straws connected to saddlebags. Everything he did was over the top. His home was literally a castle.

"The Nanny" star Fran Drescher, 56, is dating 49-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai - the man who reportedly falsely claims he invented email. Ayyadurai developed a full-scale emulation of a mail system he ...

THE man who invented Vimto will be remembered with a new granite plaque to be installed on the house he grew up in. John Noel Nichols, born in 1883, was brought up at Bank House mansion in Dukes ...