For centuries, medieval maps captured not only geography but imagination — a world where the unknown brimmed with danger. The phrase “Here Be Dragons” has become a symbol of mystery, yet few maps ...

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Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

Ever hear of Jeremy Bentham? He was an Englishman, a political philosopher who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries—and he ...