Successful as an author of popular adventure and romance fiction, Baroness Orczy also wrote elaborately plotted detective tales. Orczy's Old Man in the Corner stories develop a brilliant, eccentric, and unlikely armchair detective, a disagreeable raconte...
by David Sokol The Marquis de Sade could never have dreamed up the installation NArchitects designed for his château in Provence Pilgrims to the Marquis de Sade's château in Lacoste, France, are usually in search of painfully beautiful medieval architecture. Last summer,...
London's future lies in skyscrapers, according to its mayor. Fay Sweet looks at the proposed towers WHAT is tall and green and good for London? The answer, according to Mayor Ken Livingstone, is the skyscraper. He believes it is time London started looking...
For years, Linda Carroll kept quiet while her offspring, Courtney Love, filled tabloids brimful with brimstone tales of victimization by a wicked mom who forced her to live in a chicken shed. Now, in Her Mother’s Daughter, Ms. Carroll tells her own bizarre story and...
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2007. There are 349 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 16, 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect. (It was later repealed by...
