And it needed to be big. The sign’s true origin is lost to history, but one popular tale ties it to L.A.'s then (and still) burgeoning car culture. Hollywoodland funder and newspaper publisher ...

When Tod Swormstedt began collecting signs in 1999, it was just him and a dream. The American Sign Museum opened in 2005 and ...

Outside the gallery, a large Hollywoodland sign mural, red carpet and giant-sized ... should be engrossing for both tourists and Hollywood history buffs. Titled "Los Angeles: From Film Frontier ...

No location within DCA has been specified, but it’s possible the land will go into the underutilized Hollywoodland area of ...

September 19, 2024 • Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of ...

September 13 falls on Friday this year. Even though you may think Friday the 13th is cursed, some great things have happened ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

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Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

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An elusive figure in history, Zarathustra becomes clearly visible as the center of a monotheistic faith whose influence on other major religions is undeniable. Linking China and the Roman world ...