Articles by Dan Lewis

English author Mary Shelley first published “Frankenstein” in 1818, the story of a mad scientist (Victor [...]

For centuries, the smallpox disease claimed the lives of huge numbers of people around the world. In the [...]

  In 1982, Tommy Tutone came out with the song “867-5309/Jenny,” the music video of which [...]

  The image above — you can see a slightly larger version here — shows a man named Anthony [...]

There are many, many different languages spoken in this world — so many, in fact, that Wikipedia [...]

When it comes to McDonald’s and the company’s innovations, perhaps no one deserves a mention more [...]

Frosted glass — you can see a picture of some here — is a special type of glass which is [...]

How far can you get on $52? If you’re in North or Central America, how about all the way to Tokyo, for [...]

Ice cream is, in a word, wonderful. It’s probably not the world’s most perfect food — [...]

Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than three decades, using the threat of violence and death as a [...]