The Verge Historic Painting: El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent, 1882. One of Sargent's most famous paintings is a cluster of movement and light.
Celebrating “The Haunting”: A masterpiece of horror cinema. Robert Wise's "The Haunting" is perhaps the greatest horror film ever made, undiminished after more than 60 years.
Earthbound starship: The strange fate of the HMS Beagle. What happened to the famous ship on which Darwin made his epic voyage of discovery?
Corruption or mercy? The Ford Watergate pardon. Why did Gerald Ford pardon Richard Nixon after Watergate? Was it an act of cronyism, or moral and political wisdom?