Long before Star Trek and Star Wars, there was Buck Rogers, the first comic strip devoted to science fiction. Debuting early in 1929, it introduced readers to most of its stock features, including rocket ships, space travel, robots, and ray guns,...

Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers, the hero of two novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan published in the magazine Amazing Stories. Rogers is best known from the long-running syndicated newspaper comic strip....

As one who has written extensively on military subjects, I find it disturbing to learn from Bradley Graham's report {Feb. 21} that top civilian and military planners in the Pentagon are pushing for new operational concepts and organizational changes based on the alleged war-winning...

"Top Secret. Unauthorized use of this information is punishable by law." Even as a child playing spy games, I never dreamed I would be in possession of Top Secret documents, and to this day I haven't. But I came close once. In...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 6-12:Jan. 6: Country singer Earl Scruggs is 84. Actress Bonnie Franklin is 64. Singer Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds is 57. Country singer Jett Williams is 55. Guitarist Malcolm Young of AC/DC is 55. Actor-comedian Rowan Atkinson...

Modern-day South Beach is still a vibrant monument to the Art Deco designs of the late 1920s and '30s.The narrow streets are lined with hotels and buildings designed with curved edges, porthole windows and pastel-colored facades, all touchstones of the style.The Miami Design Preservation League...