In many ways, Polly Adler's rags to riches tale is exemplary of the American Dream. Who was she?When Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other members of The Roundtable left the Algonquin Hotel, they could often be overheard saying they’d be “going to Polly’s” later that evening. To the untrained ear, it might have sounded like they were headed to a friend’s for a dinner party. In a way, that was true: the Polly of whom they spoke was Polly Adler, and she did throw lavish parties almost nightly, entertaining not just writers like Parker and Benchley, but celebrities, mob bosses, and other New York City elite.

In the last year, we've brought you the most interesting news from around the globe, dealing in a vast and diverse array of issues. Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada recently unveiled a dinosaur so well-preserved that many have taken to calling it not a fossil, but an honest-to-goodness “dinosaur mummy.” When this dinosaur — a member of a new species named nodosaur — was alive, it was an enormous four-legged herbivore protected by a spiky, plated armor and weighing in at approximately 3,000 pounds.

Source: Daily Mail A single glance at the brilliantly detailed costumes, gargantuan crowds and extravagant floats, and it’s easy to see why the Rio de Janeiro Carnival is one of the world’s most incredible festivals. Each year, millions of people gather at the Sambadrome and in the streets to take part in the colorful celebration. Although Carnival traces back to the ancient Romans and Greeks who celebrated the rites of spring, the modern festival began in Brazil in the 1800s.

Wayne Williams Wikimedia Commons/NetflixWayne Williams (l.), portrayed by Christopher Livingston in Mindhunter, has long been suspected of being the killer behind the Atlanta Child Murders but he has never been charged for them. One of the true stories that Mindhunter is exploring throughout the second season is the Atlanta Child Murders case. Beginning in 1979 and continuing for another 22 months, black teenage boys started being abducted and killed, with their bodies being dumped days later in undeveloped areas around the city.

While The Conjuring 3 may seem like pure fiction, it was actually inspired by true stories of exorcisms and murder in early 1980s Connecticut.Warner Bros. PicturesRuairi O’Connor as Arne Cheyenne Johnson in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Since its debut in 2013, The Conjuring series, has terrified audiences with its tales of hauntings, demons, and murder. And part of what makes these films so compelling and so terrifying is that they have roots in real life.