One of the most memorable characters from HIMYM or How I Met Your Mother, Barney Stinson, is an iconic sitcom character played by Neil Patrick Harris.

The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

Until I visited Philadelphia I had never registered that this is really where the United States of America happened. The ...