A little more than a century ago, the new swimming pool at Roosevelt Park was overrun by mermaids. Granted, these flappers didn't have fins, but they mesmerized the masses in an Aug. 10, 1924, edition ...

Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, is singing and swinging his way into South Miami. The character has been a staple of pop culture since 1914, when Edgar Rice Burroughs published the first of 24 novels about ...

In 1918, when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of ...