In the late 1990s, it was nearly impossible to avoid those “Got Milk?” ads. They were plastered on roadside billboards and tacked onto dorm-room walls. You could spy them in the pages of glossy magazines and on the sides of buses.
Stars — megastars with instantly recognizable faces such as Jennifer Aniston, Britney Spears, Christie Brinkley, Harrison Ford, Serena and Venus Williams — posed with milk mustaches dripping just so from their A-listiest of lips. Read More...
By Myles BurkeFeatures correspondent
AlamyDuring the bleak winter of 1914, amid the mud, blood and chaos of World War One, an extraordinary series of ceasefires spontaneously occurred along the Western Front. In the 1960s the BBC spoke to some of the men who, over that exceptional Christmas period, decided to lay down their arms.
On Christmas Eve 1914, Rifleman Graham Williams, of the 5th London Rifle Brigade, stood out on sentry duty staring out anxiously across the wasteland of no man's land to the German trenches. Read More...
On a crisp fall night, headed to a suite high above FedEx Field, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) joked that attending a Washington Commanders home game last season must have felt like boarding a flight on Southwest Airlines: “Go in and pick your seat.” But over the summer, Daniel Snyder sold the franchise, which re-energized the moribund fan base and reignited the jurisdictional battle to land the team’s next stadium. Read More...
