Little Orphan Annie is the latest in a sequence of pop culture foundlings, but America’s orphans of the Great Depression weren’t endearing at all.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany.

Guglielmo Marconi successfully made the first transatlantic radio transmission on December 12, 1901.

In their 2010 article on injury prevention for musicians, Christine Guptill and Christine Zaza outline strategies to ward off injuries from muscle overuse.

The archive of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, will go to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Mourning clothes were a signal to the world that a family—really, that a woman had suffered a loss.

Poet Claudia Emerson has died of cancer at age 57.

Dutch-born architect Rem Koolhaas has designed a new arts center for Miami Beach, set to open in December 2015.

It's Mary Martin's iconic 1954 performance as Peter Pan in the live NBC TV broadcasts that are etched indelibly in the collective memory of many.

If Dutch citizens want to gaze on Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting The Starry Night, they need to travel to New York, to the 5th floor of the Museum of Modern Art where the canvas has resided since 1941.