Record-breaking sales continue to come from 1954 Topps more than 70 years after its release. Even without Mickey Mantle, the ...

Mercedes-Benz and parent automaker Daimler didn’t walk away from World War II unscathed. It was then-Daimler Chairman Wilhelm Haspel’s idea to take the Mercedes-Benz division back to motorsports in an ...

Switzerland, neutral during the Second World War, hosted the 1954 World Cup. West Germany returned to the international fold and the Ferenc Puskas-inspired Hungary, who had handed England a historic 6 ...

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I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...

When Daedalic announced 1954: Alcatraz last summer, I unceremoniously ignored it. I live in the San Francisco area, and to be blunt, what could a German studio possibly know about Alcatraz? Gene Mocsy ...

This story originally published in the July 1954 issue of National Geographic magazine and has been put online as part of our From the Vault series. See more digitized stories from our archives here.

On Thursday, it will be the five-year anniversary of the massive derecho or very damaging wind storm that swept through the Washington area (June 29, 2012), and left 1 million area residents without ...

In the hubbub after the meteorite strike, Ann Hodges became a minor celebrity. Photographs of her bruise and the damage to her home appeared in Life magazine in an article entitled, “A Big Bruiser ...

The weekend after Thanksgiving/Black Friday is definitely relaxing but also a little boring. But it’s not the most boring day in the 20th century. That’d be April 11th, 1954. A scientist developed ...

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