They thought they’d never fall.  With all their great technologies, the empire thought it would last forever.

Pax Romana.  200 years of peace.  A guarantee of law, order, and security within the empire, even as it meant separating from the rest of the world, even as it defended and expanded its...

“Tell us about Jessica!” said Pete (31) to his friend Melvin (30).  “Are you excited to meet her in person?”

Melvin met Jessica (27) on Hinge, a hot new online dating app.  Jessica seemed very promising: smart, beautiful, funny, cheerful, attentive, and balanced.

“Truth be told, she’s not that special,”...

This is Mexico: 1840.  Where would you build the wall?

The Mexican-American war of 1846-1848 took away Mexico’s land. 

But the people stayed behind.  People with families, kids, grandparents.  There were close to 75,000 Mexicans living in the conquered territory, from California to Texas. 

After the war, Mexicans had the choice...

The Miss America pageant has scrapped its swimsuit competition.

"We are no longer a pageant, we are a competition," said Gretchen Carlson, chairwoman of Miss America's board of directors.  "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance. That's huge."

Miss America's origins began with an "Inter-City...

He’s not on Facebook.  He doesn’t have a cell phone.  He doesn’t look at a newspaper or scribble in a journal.

He orders coffee, sits down, folds his hands, and looks outside the window.  He blinks gently.

What's going on in mind?  Is it a tormented tornado of doom?

He’s dressed modestly.  No...

The tweet reads:

Who's watching the #RoyalWedding today? It's very exciting. Nothing much happening elsewhere. Or in the States or in Texas. Thank you Jesus we can watch the wedding today! Have you seen the guns the palace guards use? SA80s! Support Britain's #SecondAmmendment #NRA

The wedding promises to be a magical...

Meghan Markle’s Hollywood side shall be projected in all its glory.  A script straight out of Coachella 2012 where hologram TuPac famously performed live with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.

The Tilted Glass’s team of elite paparazzi has spied and confirmed the bride’s plans.  Markle has commissioned a hologram of the...

Joanne Morley is proving the haters wrong.

Today Joanne shared a photo of herself in a back-bending yoga pose on the beach.  On her instagram profile she writes: “Here in my bikini to prove the human form is nothing to be ashamed of.  We are all made differently.  For years...

Major developments today in missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Our staff aviation experts have found the plane.  And it is well outside the Indian Ocean search area.

“It’s on Mars,” said resident sleuth, Alex Shankman.  “Just west of the Eunostos canal.  Look for yourself.”

Sure enough, on Google Mars, on can see the...

The Boy Scouts of America doubled down on their mission to consume all boys and girls by announcing it will drop the “boy" from the name of "Boy Scouts" and just be called Scouts BSA, or Scouts.

Change has been coming quickly to the shrinking Boy Scouts organization, whose enrollment has...

The transatlantic slave trade kidnapped between 10 million and 12 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century. 

Today, in the year of our lord 1623, Kanye West interrupted one of the ships to speak to the traders.

“Imma let you finish,” began...