Source: Memeoirs Since its 1958 birth, the iconic Muppet franchise has revolutionized the field of puppetry — and it’s not showing any signs of stopping. This fall, Jim Henson’s puppet crew returns to TV for the first time since 1998. Co-created by Bill Prady and Bob Kushell, the latest incarnation of the Muppet Show has already seen its share of controversy, with some deeming the show unsuitable for children. “The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s are now weighing in on inter-species relationships and promiscuity,” wrote Christian fundamentalist group One Million Moms in its campaign to have the show canceled.

According to a new book, John Wilkes Booth was dating five different women at the time he was shot. Amazon / John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him book cover; Maggie Mitchell, Fanny Brown, and Helen Western Apparently, the expression is true: Everyone loves a bad boy. At least, according to a new book on Abraham Lincoln‘s assassin, it is. John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Love Him written by E.

Blinded as a 3-year-old boy, Louis Braille went on to become a renowned French educator in the 19th century, developing the famous Braille system that’s still used today.API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesA portrait of educator and inventor Louis Braille. Today, millions of people around the world use Braille to read and write. But before Braille, visually impaired people struggled to learn complicated systems that had major drawbacks. Until a 19th-century French teenager named Louis Braille changed everything.

"After all this time and the suspicions, looking and trying to locate him after nearly 60 years, the family can now rest assured that we can give him a proper burial and memorial."ABC NewsThe home where the missing Long Island father’s bones were found. A Long Island man was not entirely surprised when he found human bones buried in the basement of his home. After a six-decade search, he believes that those bones belong to his own father.

A child of former slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune achieved the near-impossible when she became an advisor to five different U.S. Presidents in the Jim Crow era.In 1929, the poet Langston Hughes and the educator Mary McLeod Bethune traveled from Florida to New York City together. Bethune didn’t worry about finding hotels and restaurants that would accept her and Hughes in the Jim Crow South. Instead of searching out segregated accommodations, she called on a wide network of supporters.