British playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s Shakespeare In Love, has died. He ...

Facing a budget shortfall, McGill University’s athletic department announced plans to eliminate 15 sports. It’s logical to a lot of people, but to many of the rest of us, who believe that high level ...

Share: TwitterFacebookShare-emailCopy URL to clipboard Sports fans love their stars. Perhaps that is why, when a nation loses ...

Today in Music History for Dec. 11: In 1882, Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "Iolanthe" was performed at the Bijou Theater in Boston, the first U.S. playhouse to be lighted exclusively by electricity.

Today in History for Nov. 24: In 1639, astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks first observed the transit of Venus across the Sun. In 1642, Dutch mariner Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, a triangular-shaped ...

The scallop shells might have once been part of some larger artifact that has since disintegrated, though researchers haven’t ...