You may be surprised to learn that champagne as we know it today was invented by a nineteenth-century businesswoman. Tim Harford is joined by Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for ...

Like Nantucket Film Festival favorite Ken Burns, Yates is a Guggenheim Fellow. Her 2011 film “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator ...

From Radu Jude to Richard Linklater, the Berlinale brings fresh new cinema to dark, wintry Germany this February. We pick 12 ...

Widow Clicquot tells how the manufacturer of Veuve Clicquot champagne became the most successful businesswoman of her era.

Simon Morris looks at the art of "true-ish" movies based on real-life events. When does tweaking a story to make sense bury ...

Tackling the subject of a young widow who stood her ground during the Napoleonic era and helped establish a prestigious ...

A couple of quality historical dramas – one from the 1972 Olympics and the other from 1800s France – are coming to the big ...

The male uses its tail feathers to attract the attention of the less colorful females during the breeding season. The male long-tailed widow bird (Euplectes progne) is the animal with the longest tail ...

Champagne has long been the drink of life’s biggest milestones, from weddings and graduations to birthdays and anniversaries. But you […] The post She’s The Extraordinary Woman Behind One Of The Most ...

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You can watch it here. Thomas Napper’s ‘Widow Clicquot’ is custom-made for oenophiles. It is set in 18th-century France and focuses on Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Haley Bennett), AKA Madame ...

Each season, female brown widow spiders lay several egg sacs, each with 120 to 150 eggs. The egg sacs are distinctive, with silky spikes projecting from the surface, much like a thistle.