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Romantic poet John Keats is best known for his odes, epics and sonnets. But in his short lifetime he also wrote dozens of letters to siblings and friends, which are now surfacing together online for the first time, 200 years…

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20th century heiress Frances Glessner Lee's parents pushed her toward feminine crafts. She used that to build dollhouse scenes of death that would help future investigators do forensic crime analysis.

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200 years since ‘Frankenstein’ and it’s still alive. Here are 5 of the best adaptations

Since the classic 1931 film, “Frankenstein” has been spun off into hundreds of plays, television shows, books and films.

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