Taylor Swift 1989 Album: Mood Lyric Generator

October 26, 2014 8:04 PM EDT Nobody knows the full range of human emotion quite like Miss Taylor Swift. Sometimes she’s on top of the world, and other times she’s down in the dumps — but either way, when Taylor feels, she really feels. And so, to honor her new album, 1989 — which encompasses joy, regret, lust, nostalgia and everything in between — we’ve created this handy interactive lyric generator which spans her entire catalog. [Read More]

Tenzing Norgay on the Summit of Mount Everest

Who took the iconic photo? Edmund Hillary took the photo using a modest and compact Kodak Retina camera loaded with Kodachrome colour film, he kept the camera inside his jacket during the final ascent to keep it from freezing. Why is there not a photo of Edmund Hillary atop Everest? Hillary apparently refused a photograph when Tenzing Norgay offered to return the favour. How long did it take Hillary and Norgay to climb Everest? [Read More]

Terrence Howard (Actor and Singer-Songwriter)

Profession: Actor and Singer-Songwriter Biography: Terrence Howard is an American actor who first came to fame in the early 2000s with films such as Crash (2004) and Hustle & Flow (2005). The latter earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He has also starred in television series such as Empire (2015-2020), as well as having a musical career. Howard released his debut album, Shine Through It, in 2008. [Read More]

The Press: Ernie Pyle's War

(4 of 6) Ernie himself was never happy at a desk. Despite his shyness, something drove him on to move around, meet new people, see new things, get his facts firsthand. For a while he wrote a successful column of aviation chitchat. In 1935, after a severe attack of influenza, he went to the Southwest to recuperate and wrote a dozen travel pieces about his trip. "They had a sort of Mark Twain quality and they knocked my eyes right out," [Read More]

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The True History of America's Private Prison Industry

Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatles’ “All you need is love” was a hit, but the men in the fields sang songs with lyrics like “Old Master don’t you whip me, I’ll give you half a dollar. [Read More]

Tony Robbins | Time

Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, #1 New York Times best-selling author, and global philanthropist. He and a network of thousands of supporters of his work have assisted millions of families through the Tony Robbins 1 Billion Meals Challenge with Feeding America. He recently launched The 100 Billion Meals Challenge & The Future of Food Initiative which provides the time needed to create sustainable solutions to end world hunger and food insecurity entirely. [Read More]

VICIS Has One of the Best Inventions of 2019

Over the past decade, an emerging body of medical research has shown that playing football can increase the risk of brain injury, and youth football participation has declined significantly. But at least 1.2 million kids under the age of 13 still play tackle football, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association. So VICIS, the Seattle-­based startup whose football helmets have topped annual safety ratings published by the NFL and NFL Players Association, is turning its attention to the youth market. [Read More]

Vroom to Grow: How 'The Fast and the Furious' Became Hollywood's Greatest Action-Movie Franchise

The unqualified success of Fast and Furious 6 — which was the top-earning movie in its second week of release, outperforming even a new film from Will Smith — cemented what many industry insiders had been saying for some time: this high-octane series is poised to become Hollywood’s next great franchise. Here’s how it happened: The Fast and the Furious opened in theaters on June 22, 2001. Based on a magazine article about New York City’s underground car culture, the movie was about an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate a group of outlaw street racers suspected in a string of robberies. [Read More]

Was Stonewall a Riot, an Uprising or a Rebellion?

The Stonewall Inn has become to the modern LGBT rights movement what Lexington and Concord were to the American Revolution. But while there is broad agreement that something seismic happened there one fateful night in 1969, there is little consensus on anything else — including how people should talk about it. After police raided the New York City bar and sparked protest from patrons, were there riots? Was there an uprising? [Read More]