In 1940, a new fashion house was formed in London, which traded in a modest way for four decades under…
Panic engulfed the French Perrier company when a North Carolina chemist found traces of benzene in bottled Perrier water. Perrier…
Most people know the story of Carrie, the awkward teenager with a fanatically religious momma. Bullied at school and bewildered…
Movie director Mike Nichols described Ishtar as ‘the prime example that I know of in Hollywood of studio suicide’. The…
Across the territories and provinces of Canada, school children are considered a very precious cargo. The transport that is used…
After decades of losing market share to the ‘Pepsi Challenge’, Coca-Cola found a new formula for their 99-year-old product which…
Oh what a lovely car... or was it? In fact, the DeLorean DMC-12 was an innovative sports car with gull-wing…
Hollywood’s film studios felt expansive during the 1970s. Relatively young directors like Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola could hope for big-budget…
Apart from a handful of reigning monarchs and despots, in 1961 Nelson Bunker Hunt was the richest man in the…
Lionel Bart was the man who wrote some of Britain’s earliest pop chart hits, including ‘Living Doll’, ‘Rock With The…