Lisa Kudrow revealed during an interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show” (via People) that she recently discovered a note the ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

When it became obvious that the numerous embargos and bans levied on lace imports only led to more smuggling instead of stopping the imports, King Louis XIV’s Secretary of the Treasury, Jean-Baptiste ...

When Keynes first propagated his theories, many people considered them to be bizarre or slightly subversive, and Keynes himself to be little but a left-wing mischief maker. Now Keynes and his ...

In 1844 the French engineer Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué from Strasbourg ... The calculating machine of the Swiss clock-maker Victor (or Viktor) Schilt (1822-1880) was exhibited in 1851 at the Great ...

Antarctic historian Gerard Baker, who is also a BBC presenter and documentary maker, gives insight into life in the ... Pourquoi Pas Island is named for the 31m iron schooner of French navigator ...

The House also bears a unique connection to the United Kingdom, where its ancestral founder Jean Martell was born ... the House is also the largest single maker of Cognac globally — accounting for 60% ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is giving a family update after her daughter was forced to evacuate during the Los Angeles wildfires.

Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins Morning Joe to discuss her role in Mike Leigh's new film 'Hard Truths,' where she plays ...

She reteams with her "Secret and Lies" director, Mike Leigh, for this brutally funny drama about a British woman consumed ...

The British actor and Mike Leigh have done more than given us another great collaboration. They've gifted us with a masterpiece of bruised humanity.