Today is the birthday of the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel (1833). Nobel, to prevent his legacy from being one of death, established the Nobel Pr...

“Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on a...

"I have always written what I wanted to write. I have never considered the audience for one second. … Before publication, I am a despot."—Philip Pullm...

Today is the birthday of Chuck Berry (1926). The singer-songwriter broke into the charts in 1955 with “Maybellene,” and in 1958 “Johnny B. Goode.”

Today is the birthday of Shinichi Suzuki (1898). He taught children to play violin by listening and imitating, the way they learn to speak. A method t...

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." -- Oscar Wilde, born on this day in 1854.

Novelist P.G. Wodehouse was born this day in 1881. Author of more than 100 books about Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.

It's the birthday of poet E.E. Cummings (1884), and for his birthday we feature the poem “All in green went my love riding.”

Singer and songwriter Paul Simon celebrates his 80th birthday today. His first hit, with partner Art Garfunkel, was “The Sounds of Silence.”

It was on this day in 1892 that the Pledge of Allegiance was recited en masse for the first time, by more than 2 million students.