When Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom on the 5th of August, 1962, she was wearing nothing. Her housekeeper, Eunice Murray, who had found her, chose the last dress Marilyn had worn for her to be buried in. The dress was a Pucci green dress, a favorite dress of…

Two weeks before Marlon Brando died in 2004, he changed his will. In it, he acknowledged publicly the existence of eleven children, although he was known to have many more. Of these children, he disinherited one, daughter Petra. Curiously, he also disinherited Tuki Brando,…

Major Dick Winters led perhaps the most storied U.S. Army unit in all of World War II. On D-Day, he and his "band of brothers" in Easy Company defeated a far larger German force and allowed the Allied advance to continue. At the Dachau concentration camp, they liberated…

Grace Kelly photographed by Philippe Halsman for his jumpology photo series.

Remove cheap energy and most aspects of modern life, from car manufacturing and cheap flights to microwaves and hospital incubators, become a luxury, rather than a mundane, everyday occurrence and expectation. humanprogress.org/ce…

Natalie Wood balancing on the shoulders of actor Steve Rowland during a beach party in Malibu (1956)