What were the odds that Henry Kissinger would be close friends with Lee Kuan Yew?

Greece's revolutionary fervor has passed with Loukanikos the riot dog

Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier is dead at 63, but his death brings no justice

Comedian Chris Gethard remembers Robin WIlliams

"If he saw a big red button, he had to push it." William Ash, anti-fascist fighter-jet pilot, dead at 96.

Where are the great men? Are we beyond the point of elevating the individual over the group, or are there simply no more individuals? Marc…

(via) Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles (March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) He ate Chikin Ramen, his original flavour of noodles, almost every…

Annie Leibovitz, Susan at the House on Hedges Lane (1988), Brooklyn Museum Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) She was bookish almost from birth.…